Kollam: A woman from Kollam has flagged a scam in the name of recruitment to the Reserve Bank of India. Reema Merlin Panicker from Kundara has lodged a complaint to the rural superintendent of police in Kollam and the RBI office in Thiruvananthapuram.
Lending support to the claim, N K Premachandran MP said that he would point out the matter to the RBI governor and the CBI.
As per the complaint, candidates who applied to the post of grade B manager of the central bank, as notified on May 3, 2017, were taken for a ride by scamsters. Panicker said that she had applied for the job by clicking on a link found on the official RBI website.
The applicant paid Rs 820 as exam fee and received a hall ticket in June. She wrote a preliminary test on June 17 and attended another round of exam on July 7. She was asked to attend an interview through video conferencing on August 1.
She was later informed that she was selected for the job and she could go to the RBI staff training college in Chennai on November 7. Later she received another email that the training had been postponed to December 18 due to the flood in the city.
She went to the training college on December 17 but she was told that she would be intimated by email. She received a mail, but informing her that she could join duty on February 5 even without training as the training director had passed away!
Panicker said that she was never suspicious about the letters because they carried the RBI seal.
On February 3, she received another mail telling her that the entrance tests were held invalid due to irregularities. She was told to attend a fresh interview on April 1. She was interviewed by a person who introduced himself as Mahendra Singh through video conferencing.
On April 3, she was informed that she had secured the eighth rank in the test and she had to collect an award in a function in a Kochi hotel on April 11. In Kochi, she could find no traces of such a function.
Suspicious, Panicker went to the RBI office in Thiruvananthapuram, where she was told that the central bank never emailed appointment-related intimations. Everything was sent by registered post.
Premachandran said that he received the complaint on Friday and he would forward it to the CBI and the RBI immediately. He said that the central bank had to investigate the fraud in a test written by many people in the country.
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