Arrest of fake RPF jawan blows lid off 'recruitment racket' in Kalyan

KALYAN: The arrest of a 22-year-old man, allegedly masquerading as a Railway Protection Force (RPF) jawan, has blown the lid off a racket in which several youths were cheated with the promise of jobs in RPF.
This man, Rohan Utekar, from Daund taluka of Pune district was caught travelling without a ticket on an express train on Thursday. He was attired in what resembled the RPF uniform.When a ticket checker asked him to produce his ticket, Utekar claimed he was an RPF jawan. He produced an identity card which was found to be "fake", the railway police said.
When the railway police team led by senior inspector Pandarinath Kande interrogated him, he spilled the beans on the fake recruitment racket. He told the officials about a "gang operating in Maharashtra running a fake RPF job racket with the gang members having cheated at least 100 people of crores", railway police officials said.
He has told the police about some person from Mumbai who had taken Rs 6 lakh from him and also from eight other family members, with the promise of a job in RPF. "Possibly to make things appear genuine, he was even sent for training for three months in Bihar and other places... His medical examination was also done in Kolkata," said an official.
Official said the youth has claimed he came in contact with the person from Mumbai through a director of a private police training institute in Ahmednagar.
The police are getting information from the arrested man to track down others involved.