Patna, April 25: Two fake train ticket examiners (TTEs) were today arrested from Patna Sahib railway station. The arrested men, Uttar Pradesh residents Satrughan Singh and Manoj Kumar Pandey, claimed they had been trained and also produced appointment letters with the signature of the divisional railway manager, Danapur.

“It seems the men were duped by this person called Abhishek. The arrested men claimed they were brought to the station by Abhishek,” said a police officer.

The duo were checking tickets of passengers on the platform when Rajesh Kumar, the original TTE arrived. An altercation started and the Government Railway Police was informed. The men also produced identity cards.

The police officer said: “It looks like a fake job racket.”

The men said they had been trained in Sonepur and were supposed to give Rs 1 lakh each to Abhishek after they started working.

The police, however, said they would run background checks on Pandey and Singh to find out if they were lying.

Robbery

Criminals broke into the rented house of a State Bank of India employee in West Anandipur area and decamped with two laptops and a Blackberry mobile in the small hours on Monday.

Bimal Kant Prasad, his son and daughter, were sleeping in the house when the men entered from the balcony.

“The laptop was in my bedroom. The door of the balcony was open. They took two laptops and my Blackberry mobile. I went to the balcony in the morning and saw my sister’s and my wallets there. The money had been taken,” said Sharad Vivek Sagar, Prasad’s son. He added: “The Blackberry has a tracking device, so I am hopeful the police can nab the gang. The criminals have been active in this area.”