NEW DELHI Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing has started a probe into a large-scale fraud against scores of youngsters, who were assured jobs in the railways but given fake letters. They were made to stand at platforms and count trains for an “on-the-job” experience, police said.It’s a multi-crore rupee fraud and police claimed to have traced transactions worth over Rs 2.67 crore so far.Most people cheated by the alleged fraudsters are graduates with backgrounds in engineering and technical education. According to the complaint, they were “posted” at the New Delhi Railway Station every day for eight hours for a month to count the arrival and departure of trains and their coaches.”They had been told that this was part of their training for positions of travel ticket examiner (TTE), traffic assistants, and clerks. Each candidate paid between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 24 lakh to get these jobs,” an official said, citing the complaint. One of the complainants, M Subbuswamy (78), an ex-serviceman, had put people in touch with the alleged fraudsters. He claimed that he was not aware that the men were scammers. The candidates allegedly paid money to Subbuswamy, who further transferred it to the accused, who is on the run.Subbuswamy’s role is also under the scanner, police said. He has claimed that he met a person named Sivaraman, a resident of Coimbatore, in one of the MP quarters in Delhi. Sivaraman claimed to be closely associated with parliamentarians and ministers and offered to facilitate employment in the railways for the unemployed in lieu of monetary gains.”Sivaraman asked me to come to Delhi along with job seekers. Initially, I came with three job seekers and when the news of their job training spread in their villages in and around Madurai, 25 more candidates joined,” Subbuswamy told police. “The accused posed as a deputy director in the northern railway.”According to the FIR, after paying the money as facilitation charges, these prospective candidates were called for a medical examination at the Railway Central Hospital, Connaught Place, and then for document verification at the office of the Junior Engineer, Northern Railway, Shankar Market. They were provided with documents such as orders for training, ID cards, training completion certificates, and appointment letters.
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