Police unearthed a fake job racket in the industrial hub at Kalinganagar in Jajpur district on Sunday and arrested a racketeer. IIC of Kalinganagar police station Jyoti Ranjan Panda said, “The police have arrested Swagat Moharana, the kingpin of the fake job racket, in his house in Cuttack on the charge of duping an unemployed youth, Matruprasad Moharana, of Rs 40,000 on the pretext of providing him a job in the l&T company at Kalinganagar posing himself as a recruitment officer of the company and collecting money from 12 job seekers. But Matruprasad got suspicious and contacted the police officer in this regard.”
Moharana was produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Jajpur Road. The court rejected his bail application and remanded him to jail custody.
The police suspect that Moharana also earlier cheated many unemployed youths in the district and other areas of the State.It may be recalled that last year police had arrested eight persons at Jajpur town on the charge of running a fake job racket.
They had posed as job recruitment officers of Tata company and interviewed at least 15 engineering graduates in Bhimsen Palace hotel in Jajpur town and collected Rs 90,000 from each job seeker.