RRC exam fraud: two railway employees held

December 06, 2014 12:08 am | Updated November 09, 2016 05:19 pm IST - HYDERABAD:

Inspector of Special Operation Team of Cyberabad, V. Umender showing the electronic devices that were seized from main accused in Railway Recruitment Cell examination scam for Group-D posts held last monnth in TS, AP and Maharashtra, during a press conference in Hyderabad on Friday. Photo: Mohammed Yousuf

Inspector of Special Operation Team of Cyberabad, V. Umender showing the electronic devices that were seized from main accused in Railway Recruitment Cell examination scam for Group-D posts held last monnth in TS, AP and Maharashtra, during a press conference in Hyderabad on Friday. Photo: Mohammed Yousuf

Two railway employees arrested by Cyberabad police on Friday in the Railway Recruitment Cell (RRC) test fraud busted recently confessed to investigators that job recruitment scams were going on in South Central Railway (SCR) for the past few years.

One of them, Malothu Maschendar, 39, working as a Grade I technician, told his interrogators that he managed to secure the question paper of a test conducted by Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) at Bangalore one day in advance in 2006.

He got jobs for 11 candidates that year by passing on the question paper to them, Cyberabad Police Commissioner C.V. Anand said at a press conference.

Attempts fail twice

These 11 persons are working in the railways at different places currently. An Ayurvedic doctor, Gunthakal Srinivas Reddy, arranged question paper for him then. Maschendar joined the railways in 2004 after writing an exam and trained for the test at a coaching institute.

Having succeeded in securing jobs for others through question paper leakage in 2006, he tried to repeat it in 2008 and 2010 with the help of another railway employee, Swamy Naik, then senior commercial manager in Rail Nilayam.

They secured some electronic devices to bring out the question paper but failed, Mr. Anand said.

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