Army, Pune Cops Bust Racket For Fake Recruitment Into Railways, Territorial Army; One Arrested

One person, who runs a pre-recruitment training academy for army aspirants, has been arrested in this connection from Solapur district of Maharashtra, officials said.

In a joint operation, the Army and the Pune police busted a recruitment racket that allegedly duped some aspirants on the false promise of jobs in various government services like the railways, banking and Territorial Army, officials said on Wednesday. One person, who runs a pre-recruitment training academy for army aspirants, has been arrested in this connection from Solapur district of Maharashtra, they said. "A fraudulent recruitment module involving the issuance of recruitment documents and circulation of results of prospective candidates through fake websites, for their selection into various government services like railways, banking, and Territorial Army, etc, being run from Pune, has been busted jointly by Army and police authorities," a defence release said. It was busted following a tip-off provided by the intelligence agencies of the army's Southern Command, it said.