Title - Three create fake railway site, dupe job aspirants

New Delhi: Three men, including a Delhi University graduate, were arrested today for allegedly cheating about 400 people from Bihar, West Bengal and Haryana by promising them jobs with the Indian Railways.The police claims that the arrestees had created a fake website of the Indian Railways Recruitment Board to lure their victims.Additional deputy commissioner of police (South district) PH Khushwah said the accused have been identified as Sagar Saxena (32), Pravin Kumar (24) and Virender Sharma (29). They are residents of Delhi.According to the police, Sagar has completed his BCom from Allahabad University and is trained in computer software and developing websites. Kumar has completed his BCom through correspondence from Delhi University and Sharma has pursued MBA from City College at Gwalior.Khushwah said, "We have busted a gang that has duped about 400 people from Bihar, West Bengal and Haryana on the pretext of providing them jobs with the Indian Railways. They had created a fake website of the Indian Railways Recruitment Board and charged Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh from each candidate for providing them a job under categories C and D of the Railways."On September 12, a case regarding the matter was registered at the Kazi Mohmadpur police station at Muzaffarpur in Bihar. The complainant is the Railway Bharti Board.

After the arrest of the three persons, the police learnt that they worked in connivance with one Manish of West Bengal. They together created and uploaded a fake website- www.irrb.org/muzaffarpur/- which resembled the original website of the Railway Recruitment Board at Muzaffarpur. On the fake website, they uploaded the roll numbers of the candidates, by copying them from the original website, and showed that they had qualified for the board.

Thereafter, they contacted these candidates and pretended to be railways officials and collected money from them on the pretext of providing them jobs.

"Saxena had designed the website, Kumar arranged for the domain name for hosting it and Sharma chose names and roll numbers of some candidates. Manish collected money from the victims. He is presently absconding," said Khushwah.