Six people have been charged by the police for defrauding job seekers in Navi Mumbai of Rs1.31 crore by making false promises of clerical jobs with the Indian Railways. According to a Kharghar police station official, the accused targeted 20 victims between September 2022 and April 2023 and obtained the money through cash and digital transfers, reported PTI. 

According to the PTI report, one of the accused misappropriated the funds to construct a home in Kolhapur. The accused stopped answering and did not return the money when the victims, who were all Kharghar locals, questioned about the job placements. The victims went to the police after realising they had been duped.