Indian Railways News => Topic started by irmafia on Oct 27, 2012 - 15:30:48 PM


Title - Prime suspect in rail recruitment scam held, was producing Bollywood movie
Posted by : irmafia on Oct 27, 2012 - 15:30:48 PM

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested a prime suspect in the fake railway recruitment racket that deprived thousands of jobless youth across the country of crores of rupees.Ram Singh alias Ramnathuni Singh (53), who hails from Bihar and is settled in New Delhi, was arrested by a special team of the CBI’s Anti-Corruption Branch here, sources in the agency said.Investigators said that Singh, along with his associate Navin Kumar, an absconding accused, was producing a Bollywood movie with the booty.He played a crucial role in designing and developing the fake railway recruitment website and appointed agents in many States to lure unemployed youth.Promising jobs in the Group C category, they collected Rs. 6 lakh to 8 lakh from each candidate and sent fake appointment letters.Their modus operandi was to send the selected candidates to Kolkata where they would undergo medical examination at the railway hospital.“The trainees would be given a medical fitness certificate and then sent to the Howrah railway station to check the punctuality of trains as part of a training module. The entire process was only a gimmick and the accused took the help of some officials of Eastern Railway … it was only when the candidates went to join duty at different railway establishments that they realised the fraud,” an investigator said.

Besides entering Bollywood, Singh and other suspects had invested in real estate and held shares in benami names.

Teams on lookout

“We are trying to unearth their immovable assets. Special teams are on the lookout for Navin Vinod and Mishra who were key players in the scam,” the official said.

Even as the CBI exposed the racket, the fraud continued in a number of States, including Odisha, Bihar, Maharashtra and Delhi.

Website still in use

“They are continuing to use the same website to cheat youth. The place of medical check-up, training etc might have been changed by now.

We have written to the authorities concerned to close down the website …”

Singh was produced in a city court and lodged in the Puzhal central prison, according to the CBI sources.