Fraudster Arrested for Duping Job Aspirants of Rs 1.47 crore in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: One fraudster arrested in connection with a job fraud case by Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Crime Branch. The job fraud was done to the tune of Rs. 1.47 crore.

The accused has been identified as Jayanta Mohanty. He was arrested from Chandaneswar area in Balasore district.

The arrest was made following a complaint filed by one Badal Kumar Raula. The complaint was against four persons including Jayanta Mohanty for cheating as many as 38 job aspirants.

According to sources, Jayanta and 3 others including Baikunthanath Naik and Bhimsen Moharana duped the job aspirates. One of them impersonated as an Assistant Section Officer in Home Department and while the other two posed as senior officials of the department. They had given false promises to enlist aspirants’ names in the supplementary selection list of Combined Police Service Examination 2013.

The accused was arrested under sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, and 120-B of IPC and was produced before the SDJM Court in Bhubaneswar today, the EOW said.