Delhi police detains two in railway recruitment scam

• Two men detained by Delhi police in railway job scam.
• The scheme was being looked into by police since last November.
• Some of the victims claimed they had taken out loans to pay the con artists.

Two men were detained by Indian authorities on suspicion of defrauding scores of job seekers for the Indian Railways out of thousands of rupees.

28 people who had been duped into counting trains for weeks are alleged to have received fraudulent employment offers from the suspects.

The scheme was being looked into by police since last November.

Each victim paid between 200,000 and 2.4 million rupees to get a job as a clerk, traffic aide, or ticket examiner.

One of the largest employers in the world is Indian Railways. In India, where millions of young people are anxious for steady, secure employment, scams for government jobs are frequently reported.

Sivaraman V and Vikas Rana, the two men who were detained, are charged with being a member of a gang that allegedly forced the victims, who are from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, to stand for eight hours each day for approximately a month at various platforms of Delhi’s main railway station.

According to the police, Rana, a Delhi native, used to work at the National Museum of Natural History until quitting in March of last year. According to the publication of local media, Sivaraman V resides in Tamil Nadu.

According to the news agency, the accused allegedly requested the victims to tally the number of trains that passed through the station each day.

After the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the victims had told the Indian Express newspaper that he was seeking for ways to assist his family.

Subbuswamy, a retired army employee who claimed to have unintentionally placed the victims in touch with the perpetrators, informed police of the scam.

According to him, he has been assisting the young men in his birthplace of Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, in finding employment “without any financial incentive” for himself.

He claimed to have met a man named Sivaraman who offered to help the unemployed men find government jobs and claimed to know legislators and ministers.

Subbuswamy and the victims were then placed in touch with another guy by the accused, who even brought the applicants in for phoney medical exams. Later, the man stopped returning their calls.

Some of the victims claimed they had taken out loans to pay the con artists.

The suspects are being held by the police and have remained silent ever since their capture.

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