Woman arrested for railway job scam | Thiruvananthapuram News

Thiruvananthapuram: Pettah police arrested a Kollam, Mughathala-based woman, Reshma, 24, for defrauding several people by offering jobs in the Indian Railways.According to the police, she befriended the victims after meeting them by chance at Thampanoor railway station. She used to wear an identity card of the Indian Railways to convince victims that she was a senior clerk in the recruitment division.Reshma then maintained a relationship with the victims tactically. During communications over the phone, she promised the victims jobs and later took lakhs of rupees from them.One of the complainants, a Manacaud-based woman and her brother lost Rs 4.5 lakh in the scam. Reshma offered the woman a job as junior clerk and her brother a job in the post of commercial-cum-ticket clerk. She collected the amount claiming that she had to bribe some of her senior officers.The victims were asked to sign several documents and an offer letter was also sent. They realised it was a scam only when they verified it with the office concerned.“Reshma stays with her husband, mother and three children in Kollam. Her connections in Thiruvananthapuram and what prompted her to cheat the victims will be known only through a detailed probe,” said police.Police said that she was arrested in a similar cheating case registered at Thampanoor police station in 2022. The probe team also found that the documents she gave to the victims looked similar to the ones in possession of Murukeshan Pillai, who was earlier arrested in a job scam. Pillai also cheated several people by offering jobs in the railways. The links between them were being examined, police said.Meanwhile, a court granted her bail when Pettah police produced her in connection with the case registered on the complaint of the Manacaud-based woman.