INDORE: A massive online railway job fraud in the name of Railway Recruitment Board-Bhopal (RRB-Bhopal) has been cracked by the special task force of UP police on Wednesday.

And the tech genius of the scam, who has been arrested by a UP STF team led by additional SP (ASP) Dr Triveni Singh is none other, but a 25-year-old youth Shivendu Madhav from Bihar's Siwan district, who was feted by former President Abdul Kalam for developing a search engine on lines of Google.

Shivendu, who was arrested from Lucknow had with his team of other tech savy youths from UP and Bihar, created a fake RRB-Bhopal portal, www.rrbbpl.org and duped lakhs of jobless youths from across the country, promising jobs via RRB Bhopal, IG UP STF Sujit Pandey told TOI over phone.

The fake railway recruitment portal totally resembled the real portal of RRB-Bhopal.

Shivendu was running the portal as RRB Bhopal head Nagendra Kumar, while the mastermind of the racket is a Varanasi based youth Vipin Pathak, who is being searched now.

"The arrested youth had sold his technical online blog to a top professor of a US university recently for Rs 4.5 lakh," the ASP UP STF Dr Triveni Singh said.

A few years ago, the youth was feted by former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at a science exhibition in Patna, for developing a search engine on lines of Google, Singh added.

Shivendu had also created two more web portals, www.cozli.com and www.technozeast.com and was covered prominently by the Digit magazine for his technological achievements in the past.

Further investigations are underway.