Title - Five held on cheating charge

Five persons, including a husband-wife duo, have been arrested for allegedly cheating several people on the pretext of providing jobs in Indian Railways.The fraud came to light when Surender Singh, a resident of Sonepat in Haryana, lodged a complaint with the police on January 6 saying that one Narender Kumar and his wife Renu had cheated him of Rs.6.05 lakh on the pretext of providing his son a job in the Railways.Taking up investigation, the police arrested Renu, a resident of Karol Bagh, on March 6. Her husband and alleged mastermind, Narender, was arrested on April 23. Later, the police arrested Nakshe Lal (59), Nand Kishore (53) and Manish (32). Further ten more people approached the police saying that the accused had cheated them to the tune of Rs.10 lakh promising jobs in Indian Railways.Narender, who was a corporal in the Indian Air Force, left the job in 1992 and started cheating people along with his wife Renu and son Anand on the pretext of providing jobs in the Railways. Nakshe Lal, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, is an old acquaintance of Narender and introduced him to Nand Kishore.

One of the gang members would take the victim to the Rail Bhavan and return with an “appointment letter” from inside the building while the latter was asked to wait outside. The victim was then taken to Railway Hospital in Old Delhi for “medical examination”. Nand Kishore, who is a Class IV employee at the Railway Hospital, would pose as a doctor and provided the candidate a forged medical certificate.

Manish, a resident of Karol Bagh, is a nephew of Narender.