The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch police on Saturday arrested one more fraudster in connection with a job scam of Rs 1.47 crore. The accused Jayanta Mohanty was nabbed from Chandaneswar in the Baleswar district under Sections 419/420/467/468/471/120-B of IPC and forwarded to the SDJM Court in Bhubaneswar.
The arrest was made on the basis of a complaint by one Badal Kumar Raula against four persons, including Mohanty, for cheating as many as 38 job aspirants.
According to the complaint, Mohanty and three others including Baikunthanath Naik and Bhimsen Moharana duped the job aspirants on pretext of enlisting their names in the supplementary selection list of Combined Police Service Examination-2013 by impersonating themselves as Assistant Section Officers in Home Department and other senior officials.
The investigation revealed that Raula and 37 other victims had appeared in the examination conducted by the Odisha Staff Selection Commission for the posts of Sub-Inspectors, Sergeants and Deputy Subedars. The final merit list of the selected candidates was published in December 2016. Although the names of victims were not in the list, they were hopeful of getting job in case of publication of any supplementary list.
Taking advantage of the situation, fraudsters Baikuntha Naik, Bhimsen Moharana and two others including Jayanta Mohanty assured the victims to get their names enlisted in a supplementary list.
Identifying himself as an ASO, Naik demanded the victims to pay Rs 5 to Rs 6 lakh each, which they paid.
The accused persons received Rs 1.47 crore from the victims during the period from May to November 2020. Mohanty had fled from the State to evade arrest.