Four youths have been arrested for allegedly running a job racket.

They had created fake email IDs in the name of the general manager of Metro Railway, police said.

The city police had received a complaint in February from the office of the general manager and found that at least two fake email IDs were being used to dupe job aspirants.

“Metro officials had come across multiple candidates who had turned up with fake appointment letters. On being asked, they showed the purported official email IDs from where they had received the letters,” said an officer.

After a prolonged surveillance of the mobile numbers used by the accused, the police zeroed in on a man from Ranaghat in Nadia district.

A team raided his house early on Tuesday and arrested him. Three others were arrested from different areas of Ranaghat. The accused are Sanjay Das, 21, Subhendu Ghosh, 25, Amit Pal, 25, and Abhijit Debnath, 20.

The four have been remanded in police custody.