The Central Crime Station police arrested four persons, three of them railway employees, here on Tuesday for duping the unemployed with false promise of providing jobs in the railways and collecting money from them.
The accused collected Rs 1.27 crore from 112 gullible persons. Police also recovered candidates’ applications, fake identity cards, Rs 11 lakh in cash from the accused. According to the CCS police, one of the victims, Kalyan, had lodged a complaint with them a few days ago that the railway employees had duped him after promising him a job in the railways.
Basing on the complaint, police registered cases under Section 420 (cheating) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) of IPC and took up investigation. The arrested persons are Sesham Krishna (55), a Group-D employee at Rail Nilayam in Secunderabad and resident of Satyareddy Colony in Malkajgiri; K Marithi Mahesh (43), chief office superintendent in PEC office at Rail Nilayam and resident of Vishnupuri Colony in Malkajgiri; T Rajendra Kumar (55), office superintendent in PEC at Rail Nilayam and resident of Railway Quarters at Moulali; and Nagaram Kalyan Kumar Gupta (27), a businessman from Chandranagar in Nizamabad.
Krishna did MA B.Ed and began his career as a casual labourer in the engineering construction department of SC Railway and was terminated in 1990 for negligence.
He rejoined the railways in 1993 as a permanent gangman at Nanded. Currently, he is working as an office assistant at Rail Nilayam in Secunderabad. The four collected money from the victims in the guise of loans and executed promissory notes to avoid risk, LKV Ranga Rao, DCP (CCS) said. “After collecting the money, the accused called the candidates to their offices on Sundays and conducted fake written tests after giving them false hall-tickets. Later, they collected Rs 25,000 more from each person in the name of medical tests and offered fake appointment letters.
The victims believed that they got jobs in the railways and some of them even got married. They realised that they had been duped when they went to Rail Nilayam to join duties,’’ the DCP said.
