Three individuals have been booked in Maharashtra’s Thane district for allegedly cheating job seekers out of ₹23 lakh under the pretext of providing employment in the Indian Railways, police said on Friday.
According to officials, a Dombivli resident filed the complaint after realizing he had been duped. One of the accused, Vishal Nivate, claimed to be a clerk in the Railways and promised jobs as clerks and ticket checkers for the complainant’s son and two others.
Over a span of five months, the accused and his two accomplices allegedly collected ₹23 lakh from the victims, issuing them fake appointment letters and bogus railway ID cards. The complainant raised an alarm when none of the promised jobs materialized.
The case was registered on Wednesday under sections 318(4) (cheating), 316(2) (criminal breach of trust), and 336(2) and 336(3) (forgery) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), among other relevant provisions.
While no arrests have been made yet, the police have launched an investigation to determine the full scale of the fraud and recover the defrauded amount.
