| Prime suspect in rail recruitment scam held, was producing Bollywood movie by irmafia on 27 October, 2012 - 03:30 PM | ||
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 irmafia | Prime suspect in rail recruitment scam held, was producing Bollywood movie on 27 October, 2012 - 03:30 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. | ||