Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Bhubaneswar has arrested one Dharampal Singh from Bihar on charges of fraud. Singh, a native of Rupanchak village under Hatua police limits in Gopalganj district of Bihar, has been booked under Sections 420/467/468/471/120-B of the IPC and Section 66 (C) of the IT Act.
Following his arrest, on February 16, Singh was produced before Gopalganj Chief Judicial Magistrate, who allowed Odisha EOW to taken him on 5-day transit remand for his production in the Court of SDJM, Bhubaneswar.
According to the EOW, Singh is the kingpin of the job racket which was operating in at least 17 states across India.
“The arrested accused Dharmalpal Singh is the Secretary of “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan” having its registered office in New Delhi and other offices in Mumbai, Bhopal and Dehradun. The scamsters had developed the website that resembled a Government website displaying job advertisements,” the EOW stated.
“Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan” (GRKS) invited application for various jobs like District and block coordinator, computer operator, block surveyor etc., prescribing the educational qualification and the remuneration for individual posts.
“The advertisement also contained the name of the website www.grks.org, and the job seekers were required to submit their application through web only. To gain the confidence of the job seekers they also offered reservations and concessional fee as it is done for Government jobs,” the EOW stated further.
They also give advertisements in reputed local newspapers. Being attracted by such advertisements which resembled Government Ads, lakhs of unemployed youths across the nation applied for the posts from 2020 onwards by paying the required application fees.
The applicants although were being made to sit in the online examination but none of them was being given appointments and were deliberately disqualified. In this way, GRKS was misappropriating the application fees amounting to crores of rupees from the gullible job seekers.
The amounts collected from the candidates were landed in different accounts ultimately controlled / managed by the Singh. They used to conduct fake scholarship online exam too. The scamsters were using many shell/sister companies for routing and money laundering the ill-gotten money such as:
- GURBA EDUTECH PRIVATE LIMITED, New Delhi;
- AMOGH SEVA FOUNDATION, New Delhi;
- UDYAMIT SEVA SAMITI FOUNDATION, New Delhi;
- YOTTA EDUTECH PRIVATE LIMITED, New Delhi;
- JPM INNOVATIVE SOLUTION PRIVATE LIMITED, New Delhi;
- Augstya Web;
- SUMITRA PRODUCTION, Mumbai
“As of now transaction/ fraud/money laundering of about Rs 6.60 crore has been traced. Further investigation in this case is on,” an EOW official said.
