- विज्ञापन -
Kolkata: The police in West Bengal on Saturday claimed to have cracked a major inter-state fake railways’ job racket which has roots in the industrial-cum-coal belt of Asansol in West Burdwan district.
Sources said that police have arrested two persons, both original residents of Asansol, from Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow and they were brought back to Asansol on transit remand on Saturday.
The police have identified the arrested persons as Dinesh Kumar and Priti Arora a.k.a. Seema.
While Kumar is a resident of Durand Colony in Asansol, Seema’s residence is at Sukanta Pally also in Asansol.
Sources in the state police said that they were staying in Lucknow posing as husband and wife.
The investigation was initiated by the state police in November this year based on a complaint received from a youth from the neighbouring state who was duped of a few lakh rupees against promises of railway jobs.
Accordingly, on November 30, the cops arrested another associate in the racket Harinder Singh also from Asansol.
Singh was an original resident of neighbouring Bihar.
Several incriminating documents including fake appointment letters for different railway jobs were seized from his house by police.
In the face of grilling, Kumar confessed that Dinesh Kumar and Seema were the main brains behind the racket.
Accordingly, the investigating officials started hunting and finally got information about the duo hiding in Lucknow.
A case in this regard has been started and further investigations have been set up.
