India, March 15 -- The Delhi high court has refused to grant anticipatory bail to two individuals accused of cheating several people of Rs.12 lakh on the promise of securing them jobs in the railways, observing that the case was not a simple fraud against a gullible individual but involved cheating multiple young aspirants seeking government employment.

"It is not a case of simple fraud played on a gullible individual. The number of young aspirants for government jobs was cheated. Many of the parents, one of whom is present in the courtroom, spent their life savings so that their ward could get a job with the railways. The accused/applicants not just defrauded those job seekers but even threatened to get them booked in a false rape case ...