Koraput: As many as five persons have been arrested for running a fake job racket in Koraput district, informed Sunabeda SDPO Manoj Kumar Behera on Sunday.
The accused persons have been identified as Sushil Kumar Chaudhury and Sunil Kumar Chaudhury of Rayagada and Santosh Kumar Baral, Kamal Mohanty, and Abhimanyu Mishra of Bhubaneswar.
They had provided the job aspirants with fake job cards, appointment letters, and gate passes of NALCO, Damanjodi.
Based on a complaint in this regard by NALCO at Damanjodi Police Station, three teams led by Damanjodi IIC, Sunabeda IIC, and Semiliguda IIC conducted raids at several places and nabbed the accused persons.
Police also seized fake gate passes, appointment letters, a computer, a laptop, a printer, different forms, stamps, 55 visiting cards, and appointment letters of 17 reputed companies, and Rs 21,000 in cash from their possession.
The accused persons had duped around 70 youths of the district. They had collected around Rs 30,000-40,000 each from job aspirants assuring them to provide a job in some reputed companies like NALCO and HAL.
