Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) Eight people, including the son of the chairman of the Railway Recruitment Board here, have been nabbed in connection with a multi-crore rupee job scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said Friday.

An official said CBI has seized Rs.60 lakh from bank accounts of family members of RRB Chairman, B. Sharma, and Rs.12 lakh from a former additional divisional railway manager, Raipur, A.K. Jagannathan.

Also, simultaneous raids were conducted in Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Raipur to unearth the scam involving recruitments for the posts of assistant station masters and loco-pilots for the Indian Railways.

Among those arrested were Vivek B. Sharma, son of the RRB chairman, and Jagannathan.