A man has been arrested for allegedly posing as a railway engineer and cheating at least one person by making a false promise of getting him a job in the railways.

Dipak Singh has been booked under IPC charges related to cheating, fraud, forgery and criminal conspiracy based on a complaint, which said he had taken Rs 3 lakh from Arup Kumar Baidya for getting him a job in the railways.

“The accused had been taking money from the complainant in phases since 2019. First, he took a processing fee, then medical test charges,” said an officer at Lalbazar.

The fraud came to light when Singh snapped contacts with Baidya.

The accused, originally from Jalpaiguri, was arrested from an address in north Calcutta on Thursday night.

Police said they were looking for a man named Subir Das, who had allegedly introduced Baidya to Singh in 2019.