new Delhi:
Two people have been arrested for duping about 50 people in the name of getting jobs in Railways.
The accused have been identified as 26-year-old Ritesh, resident of Faridabad and Mohit Rajput, 25, resident of Ambala, Haryana, he said.
The police made the arrests against Ritesh after investigating complaints of cheating people on the pretext of getting him a job as an assistant station master in the railways.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Sagar Singh Kalsi said that during the investigation, police raided various places in Haryana and arrested the main accused Ritesh from Faridabad on Sunday.
Kalsi said that during interrogation, Ritesh revealed that he duped about 50 unemployed people on the pretext of getting jobs and took around Rs 50 lakh from them.
The DCP said that on his behest, his accomplice Rajput was also arrested from Nirman Vihar in East Delhi on Monday.
Ritesh used to work as a marketing trainer in a private firm and used to promise trainees to get the job of assistant station master in railways.
He claimed to the trainees that he belonged to an influential family, in which a relative is a personal assistant to the Railway Minister, that his father is a financer of a major political party and that his uncle is a CBI officer.
Police said that he also used to say that a friend of his is the SHO.
After luring him, he fled with lakhs of rupees from the unemployed. Police said that his associate Mohit Rajput helped him in completing the work.