After cheating over a hundred railway job aspirants with a unique modus operandi, a racket being run by a trio has finally been thrown off-track. The Crime Branch's Unit XI arrested the three accused on Thursday, over a month-and-a-half after a city-based victim filed an FIR. The accused have been identified as Rajesh Kumar Tanti, 28, resident of Shekhpura, Bihar, Manishsingh Rai, 39, resident of Katihar, Bihar, and Seema Sunil Pawar, 30, resident of Andheri. They were produced in court today and remanded in police custody.Commenting on the arrests, Akbar Pathan, DCP, detection said, "We received complaints about this racket, after which I asked my team to work on the case. We found the root of the crime and arrested the accused from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. There have cheated over 100 job aspirants from across India."

How the racket unfolded

Following their arrests, the accused revealed how they entrapped the aspirants. One of them would pose as a chief personnel officer from the railways to gain the aspirants' trust. Later, the accused promised to arrange jobs for them. This assured job, along with three months of training came at a sum of Rs 7 lakh. The investigating team believes many more people are involved in this racket, who were the first to approach aspirants known to them as friends or relatives. Once a target was confirmed, they would be taken to a lecture that waxed eloquent about the benefits of a job in the railways.