Intensifying its investigation into the fake job scam, the Baleswar police have arrested another person allegedly involved in the racket from Jamshedpur.
With this arrest, the total number of arrests rose to seven.
The accused identified as Ankit Nayak (30), a native of Jajpur district, was forwarded to court after his arrest. Police during investigation ascertained that Ankit was residing in Jamshedpur with his parents as his father was working there in Tata Company.
He was working as a conduit to trap gullible jobseekers in the guise of getting a job in the company there. Earlier, police had found fake appointment letters of the company along with forged seals and signatures.
Earlier, six persons, including two women, had been arrested by the Sahadevkhunta police of Baleswar.
Police claimed that soon they would nab the mastermind, his brothers and other associates soon.
Notably, police during investigation found that the fraudsters have siphoned lakhs of rupees from hundreds of jobseekers. The investigating team detected properties worth over Rs 1 crore of the mastermind which he garnered through the scam.