Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing cracked a huge job fraud racket in which at least 200 job seekers of Odisha have been duped by scammers.
EOW arrested two main accused – Rajkishore Pattnaik of Balasore (presently at Bomikhal) and Arun Mohanty of Narasinghapur, Balasore (at present Nayapalli) on Monday. They have booked under Sections 420/467/468/471/120-B IPC.
The arrested persons will be produced before the Court of SDJM, Bhubaneswar.
The case was registered on the allegation of one of the victims Kumudini Sahoo of Bhubaneswar that the accused Rajkishore Pattnaik, Arun Mohanty and Bhawani Shankar Das duped her of an amount of Rs 8.15 lakh for arranging Government job by exhibiting the forged documents like appointment letters, logo and seals of Government of Odisha.
Accused Rajkishore Pattnaik assured her of a Government job, i.e. Clerk at Raj Bhawan for a monthly salary of Rs 34,000 and demanded Rs 6 lakh for the purpose. She paid around Rs 2 lakh as advance but after getting money Rajkishore Pattnaik started avoiding her. Then she came in contact with accused Arun Mohanty and Bhawani Shankar Das.
Accused Arun Mohanty assured her to arrange a job for her within a week and demanded Rs 7 lakh for that. She paid the amount but could not get any job.
The scammers have also cheated Rs 1.05 lakh from one Sushant Kumar Muduli for the post of school peon, Rs 4.50 lakh from one Deepak Kumar Nayak for the post of Peon in the Khordha Collectorate, Rs 2 lakh from one Dipu Biswal for the job of Peon in Raj Bhawan, Bhubaneswar etc.
During investigation so far, it was revealed that these Thugs have duped hundreds of job aspirants of Odisha showing them forged/fabricated Government letters/ Logo/ Seal/ selection list etc.
During search of houses of both the Scammers, hundreds of incriminating forged documents like -Government appointment letters, joining letters and seals of Lok Seva Bhawan and Secretariat have been seized along with hundreds of resumes, bio-data, mark sheets, application forms and fake appointment letters of candidates for different posts like peon, clerk, fire man, security etc. in different departments of Govt. of Odisha like Raj Bhawan, Education Department, Energy Department, Secretariat, Traffic Police, Excise Department, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Income Tax Department etc.
