Chennai’s Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested three government employees from Uttar Pradesh in a sophisticated impersonation racket for recruitment at the National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research (NITTTR), Taramani. The accused—a junior engineer, a ticket supervisor, and a primary school teacher—allegedly enabled candidates to cheat their way into jobs by impersonating them during written exams, charging approximately INR 3.5 Lakh per impersonation.
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Cracking Open a Well-Oiled Fraud Network
Earlier this year, NITTTR’s internal review flagged irregularities when six multitasking staff—hailing from Haryana, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh—demonstrated alarmingly low English and computer literacy despite working for over a year. That led to a formal complaint, prompting the CCB to investigate.
Under transit warrants, authorities arrested:
- Jaishankar Prasad, age 34, is a junior engineer at Chopan Railway Station.
- Arvind Kumar, age 30, chief commercial-cum-ticket supervisor at Bulandshahr Railway Station.
- Dharmendra Kumar, age 32, is a primary school Hindi teacher in Firozabad.
Police traced each accused through targeted surveillance by multiple teams across UP, Haryana, and Delhi.
A senior officer described the scheme as a “cottage industry,” where middlemen monitored job listings, managed online applications, and coordinated impersonators—sometimes even involving family networks—to pull off the fraud.
Why It Matters
This scam reveals how deep-rooted impersonation rings exploit aspirants desperate for stable jobs—meshing fraud with bureaucracy. Even educated professionals like railway staff and teachers are complicit, leveraging their credentials to facilitate fraud. The case underscores gaps in exam security and mass vulnerability of recruitment systems.