Following a request from the Commissionerate police, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the State Crime Branch on Monday took up investigations into two fraud cases registered against fraudster Jyoti Ranjan Beura alias ‘Golden Baba’, informed Crime Branch ADG Santosh Upadhaya.
He said that since the cases have inter-State and inter-district connections, the Commissionerate police have moved the DGP to hand over the investigations to the elite EOW as it has experts in handling such economic fraud cases and, accordingly, the DGP entrusted them to be investigated by the Crime Branch.
Arrested by the Odisha police last week, Jyoti Ranjan alias Bapi is facing as many as four fraud cases registered in Chandrasekharpur, Laxmisagar and Saheed Nagar police stations of Bhubaneswar.
The Chandrasekharpur case pertaining to encashment of cheques worth Rs 12.04 crore and the Laxmisagar case relating to duping of Rs 4.50 crore from different persons by Jyoti Ranjan have been taken up by the EOW for investigations, the CB ADG said.