The Railway Protection Force (RPF) unit of Central Railway transferred a racket it busted in Nagpur to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after scores of fake appointment letters and medical certificates were recovered from a group of four people apprehended on Wednesday afternoon.
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) unit of Central Railway transferred a racket it busted in Nagpur to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after scores of fake appointment letters and medical certificates were recovered from a group of four people apprehended on Wednesday afternoon.
What has got the RPF worried is that these fake letters have the address of the divisional manager's office at CST and the forged medical certificates have the marking of the Byculla railway hospital. However, officials were quick to add that there is nothing to prove as of now that either any employee of the DRM's office at CST or at the Byculla railway hospital has any role to play in creating these forged documents.
According to the Nagpur RPF, the racket came to light when a group of RPF personnel, acting on a tip-off, raided a car parked in the compound of the DRM's office in Nagpur. This car had four people in it and none of them could give a satisfactory answer on what they were doing there. While at first the group said they were scrap dealers and had come to know the dates of the scrap auctions, they couldn't convince the RPF personnel about their antecedents in the scrap trade.
"Once the car was searched, we found fake call letters, fake medical certificates, two diaries containing money transactions, a cheque worth Rs5 lakh, two fake press cards and some other documents," said an RPF official. The four have been identified as Virendra Khairwar, Firoz Azhar Khan, Robin Telgute and car driver Bhaskar Bhagarkar, said RPF officials.
During interrogation, the four confessed that they used to collect anything between Rs3-5 lakh from youngsters by promising them jobs in government sectors like the railways. RPF officials said one of them has a case of job fraud against his name registered with the CBI and has also served time as a murder accused.
With the possibility of this being an inter-state job racket, the RPF decided to transfer the case to the CBI. Speaking to dna, AK Singh, inspector-general of the RPF, CR, confirmed the move. "It has been officially transferred to the CBI and we will be helping them with the investigations. I cannot share details of the investigation at the moment," Singh told dna. On being asked if there was a possibility of Mumbai-based railway employees being part of the racket, Singh only said that nothing can be ruled out at the moment.
The CBI's Nagpur unit has taken the four into custody and have charged them with offences under Section 420 (cheating) and 120 (criminal conspiracy among two or more persons) of the Indian Penal Code.
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