Bhubaneswar: In connection with an earlier arrest, a team of EOW Odisha conducted raids at various places in Madhya Pradesh and arrested one Arpit Panchal, a resident of Jaora in Ratlam district. He has been booked by the EOW in a job fraud case registered in September 2022.
The arrestee was brought to Bhubaneswar on the strength of transit remand and will be produced before the Court of SDJM, Bhubaneswar today. Panchal, a Bachelor in Engineering in Information Technology, forms part of one of the biggest organized job fraud of the country.
The arrested accused in conspiracy with other inter-state fraudsters has duped, as an approximation, at least 50,000 job seekers youth across the country in respect of the amount that run in Crores. The fraud was being perpetrated by a group of highly tech-savvy engineers from Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh with the help of some expert website developers.
The arrested accused being an IT expert is skilled in creating and designing websites and well conversant with at least 4 (four) computer languages. He is now employed with a private agency. He in connivance with Zafar Ahamad who has earlier been arrested in the case and other fraudsters created and designed at least 9 websites that looked like Government websites advertising various Govt Jobs.
1. www.jssy.com (Jiban Swasthya Suraksha Yojana)
2. www.rmssy.in (Rajya Janakalyan Gramin Swasthya Sansthan)
3. www.bjsry.in (Bharatiya Jana Swasthya Suraksha Yojana)
4. www.cgjss.in (Kshetriya Gramin Janakalyan Swasthya Sansthan)
5. www.bssya.com
6. www.musy.com
7. www.gmbss.in
8. www.gsmsss.in
9. www.cspy.in
It is quite possible that they developed and used many other websites too to lure/ cheat the poor gullible job seeking youths in many states. EOW is investigating in this direction.
Out of the 9 websites, they were using 4 websites in Odisha in floating the advertisements and have duped at least 12,000 job seekers of Odisha alone in respect of the amounts varying from Rs 3,000 to Rs.50,000 per each candidate.
So far, at least 22,000 duped job seekers have been identified from Odisha and Gujarat and the figures of other States like West Bengal, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh etc. are under investigation, The remaining 5 websites are being used in other states for the purpose of advertisement in their respective regional language.
“Investigation is still going on to unearth the involvement of others and the huge amount amassed by the fraudsters in this process,” the EOW stated.
