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New Delhi: Three people
were arrested for duping several people from Bihar, Bengal and Haryana on the pretext of providing them jobs, using a fake
website of the Indian Railways Recruitment Board, police said
Sunday.
Sagar Saxena (32), Pravin Kumar (24) and Virender Sharma (29) were
arrested Sunday from their homes in south and west Delhi.
Following an investigation into a complaint lodged Sep 12 at
Muzaffarpur in Bihar by the Railway Recruitment Board, the case
was handed over to Delhi Police.
"The accused revealed that they operated in connivance with one
Manish, currently residing in West Bengal. Manish created the fake
website, www.irrb.org/muzaffarpur, imitating the site of the
Indian Railway's Recruitment Board, Muzaffarpur, Bihar," said a
police officer.
The men uploaded the roll numbers of people who had qualified for
recruitment from the original website, and showed the candidates
whom they duped as qualified ones.
"They contacted candidates pretending to be railways officials,
and collected money from them to provide jobs," said a police
officer.
"An amount between Rs.one lakh and Rs.1.5 lakh was charged from
each candidate for jobs in the groups C and D categories of Indian
Railways," the officer said.
The officer said that while Saxena designed and hosted the fake
website, Kumar arranged for the domain name and the hosting of the
space for the server. Sharma picked up names and roll numbers of
the aspirants, on directions from the absconding accused, Manish.
Manish collected money from the candidates and the booty was
distributed between the accused. Police estimate that nearly 400
people from Bihar, Bengal and Haryana fell prey to this scam.
Saxena, who received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Allahabad
University, Uttar Pradesh, worked with a Nehru Place-based
software company as a website developer.
Kumar, enrolled in a correspondence course at Delhi University, is
an expert in graphic design and works with a private firm
designing websites, while Sharma, an MBA, works as a property
dealer.
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