In a shocking case, more than 4,000 youths have been duped here by a fraudster under the guise of being offered overseas jobs. This came to light after the arrest of the main accused of the fake placement racket Subrat Palo.
Police sources said the main accused Palo had opened a fake placement agency ‘Royal India’ here and collected Rs 15,000 each from the job aspirants.
According to sources, through the agency Subrat had allegedly promised around 4,000 youths across the State to provide jobs in Singapore and reportedly duped lakhs of rupees from the aspirants. However, neither he provided the youths the promised jobs nor did he return the money. When the duped youths contacted his mobile number it remained switched off.
After a complaint was lodged with the Gosaninuagoan police, they tracked him continuously and managed to arrest Subrat and forwarded him to court, sources said.
The police are trying to ascertain if some other people are involved in the racket.