Odisha EOW Arrests Another Key Accused in Fake job Racket Operating in 17 States

Bhubaneswar: Economic Offences Wing (EOW) arrested another key accused in a fake job racket operating in at least 17 states including Odisha.

The accused was identified as Jairam Tiwari, a native of Nayangaon village under Mirganj police limits in the Gopalganj district of Bihar.

He was arrested under sections 420/467/468/471/120-B IPC r/w Sec.66 (C) of the IT Act. He will be produced before the SDJM Court in Bhubaneswar today.

Jairam Tiwari is the main associate of Dharmapal Singh, the mastermind of the job racket operating in the name of “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan”, who was recently arrested in the case.

Earlier, EOW arrested one Dharampal Singh from Bihar in a job fraud case spread across 17 states including Odisha. The arrested person is a resident of Rupanchak village, under Hatua police limits in the Gopalganj district of Bihar.

He is being brought on five days transit remand to Odisha. The 17 states where he was continuing his fake job racket were, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Odisha, Tamil Nadu,

Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Punjab, and Haryana.

The arrested accused Dharmalpal Singh is the secretary of “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan” which has registered offices in New Delhi and other offices in Mumbai, Bhopal, and Dehradun.

He developed a website resembling a Govt website displaying the Govt like job advertisements. “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan” (GRKS) invited applications for various jobs like District and block coordinator, computer operator, block surveyor etc. prescribing the educational qualification and the remuneration for the individual posts.

The job seekers were required to submit their applications through the web only. They gave advertisements in major newspapers in different states. To gain the confidence of the job seekers they also offered reservations and concessional fees as is done for Govt jobs.

They also conducted online exams and interviews and warned job seekers about Job Fraud.

Being attracted by advertisements that resembled that of the Government, lakhs of unemployed youths across the nation applied for the posts from 2020 onwards by paying the required application fees. This money was misappropriated by the frauds. In this manner GRKS

GRKS misappropriated crores of rupees from gullible job seekers.