They counted trains 8 hours a day for a month hoping for a job — It was a SCAM!
For eight hours a day over a span of an entire month, at least 28 people from Tamil Nadu were deployed on different platforms of the New Delhi Railway Station to count the arrival and departure of trains and their coaches. Little did they know that they were being duped as part of an elaborate employment scam.
According to a complaint filed with the Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW), the aspirants were fooled into believing that this was part of their training for positions of travel ticket examiner (TTE), traffic assistants and clerks. Each of them even made payments in the range of Rs 2 lakh and Rs 24 lakh to avail jobs in the Indian Railways.
According to the complaint lodged by 78-year-old M Subbusamy, the scam took place between June and July, and it was during this period that the aspirants were collectively duped of Rs 2.67 crore by the group of fraudsters.
