CBI arrests eight in Railway Recruitment racket

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NEW DELHI: The CBI has busted a gang engaged in duping people by providing them fake recruitment in Railways complete with even a fictitious training to “recruits” at Charbagh Railway station in Lucknow.

The agency arrested eight persons who ran a a near perfect recruitment racket using a deceptively similar website  of Railway Recruitment Boardand the “modified” office of a  lower rung employee at Charbagh station to “train” and con people, officials said today.

The racketeers have taken Rs 3-5 lakh from each of the gullible candidate to ensure “selection” in group C and D in the Railways, they said.

“Searches were conducted at the premises of accused persons at 8 locations in Delhi, Lucknow, Jaipur, Sonepat and Agra which led to recovery of several incriminating documents, mobile phones, bank cards, seals and cash,” the CBI spokesperson said here. (AGENCIES)