JAMSHEDPUR GRP ON LOOKOUT FOR COUPLE OVER FAKE JOB SCAM: POLICE

The government rail police (GRP) in Jamshedpur are on the lookout for a Tamil Nadu-based unidentified woman and a man in connection with a fake job racket in the Railways, people aware of the development said on Thursday.

“No arrests have been made yet. We are interrogating the three victims who were ‘appointed’ as fake booking clerks in the Birbans station here and a staff member of the ticket booking outsourcing agency. Based on their feedback, we are looking to arrest a Tamil Nadubased woman, who is allegedly the kingpin of the fake job racket, and a person named Anshuman. The problem is none of the victims or the middleman has ever seen the woman or Anshuman. They only talked over the phone,” Praveen Pushkar, Jamshedpur rail superintendent of police (SP), told HT on Thursday. The three victims have been identified as Dhivan Kumar from Tamil Nadu, Rupam Shah, and Shubhasish Mandal from West Bengal. The fourth man has been identified as David Singh, a staff member of ticket booking outsourcing agency.

The South Eastern Railway (SER) said in a statement that their vigilance wing caught the three victims from Birbans station under the Chakradharpur division on April 16 in an operation. “These three persons were caught working as booking clerks at the Birbans station on a tip-off that a fake job racket in robbing gullible persons of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of the fake job of commercial clerk cum ticket collector (CCTC). They were given fake appointment letters, railway ID, and posting letters.”