Counting Trains Was Part Of "Training" In This Job Scam Worth Crores
NDTV
Job seekers had paid between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 24 lakh for various positions in the Railways, according to a complaint.
At least 28 people from Tamil Nadu were deployed at different platforms of the New Delhi Railway Station every day for eight hours for a month to count the arrival and departure of trains and their coaches, unaware they were victims of an employment scam.
They had been told that this was part of their training for positions of travel ticket examiner (TTE), traffic assistant, and clerk, and each of them paid amounts ranging between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 24 lakh to get the jobs in the Railways, according to a complaint filed with the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW).
For the one-month training which took place between June and July, the victims were duped of Rs 2.67 crore by a group of fraudsters, according to the complaint lodged by 78-year-old M Subbusamy.
Mr Subbusamy, an ex-serviceman, had put the victims in touch with the alleged fraudsters, but he has claimed that he was unaware that the entire thing was a scam and he too had fallen for their trap.
