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The Rajkot crime branch busted a massive nationwide racket of cheating young job aspirants, mainly Class XII pass, with the promise of recruitment in the Indian Railways.
This plot has an uncanny resemblance to Akshay Kumar thriller ‘Special 26’ where youths were fraudulently recruited in CBI by the protagonist and his aides.
On Saturday, the Rajkot crime branch busted a massive nationwide racket of cheating young job aspirants, mainly Class XII pass, with the promise of recruitment in the Indian Railways. The gang of six not only created a fake website of the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) but also set up a bogus training centre in some unused building Lucknow where the victims were sent.
They charged anything between Rs 12 lakh to Rs 15 lakh per aspirant and the money was deposited in various dubious accounts. The gang has cheated at least 42 people from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh but police suspect there are many more victims.
Of the seven victims from Gujarat, six are residents of Rajkot and one from Ahmedabad. “The irony is that the job aspirants were completely in the dark that they were victims as they were undergoing training at the bogus centre. It was only after cops informed them that they realized they had been cheated,” said Manoj Agrawal, Rajkot police commissioner.
Some people also used illicit ways of getting the jobs, so they kept their mouth shut.
Police got information that a man named Shailesh Dalsaniya, having his office in Limbda Chowk area, was enticing parents with a promise of getting railway jobs for their wards in lieu of Rs 15 lakh. Dalsaniya charged Rs 26,000 for preparing the documents which are prepared by his aides - Kalpesh Sheth from Ahmedabad and Iqbal Khatri of Rajpipla. Sheth and Khatri then arranged for the aspirants’ training in their Lucknow centre.
Mastermind of the racket, Himanshu Pandey from Lucknow, and two others are yet to arrested A crime branch team went to Lucknow and raided the centre with the help of local police. V K Gadhvi, inspector, crime branch said, “Before raiding, we first observed how the training centre was working. It was operating from an unused railway building in the Alambagh area.”
The aspirants had to stay in hotels at their own expenses during three months of training. MV Rabari, sub inspector, crime branch added, “The accused had opened a bank account in the name of RRB Corporation and provided bogus pay slips.”
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