A fraudulent finance company operating in Jaleswar has disappeared from the area after siphoning off cash deposit to the tune of about Rs 20 lakh.
The company personnel were taking money from the gullible persons, mainly women, to provide them job after training and advancing them loans.
Sources said that the company named as ‘ Uddjiban Finance’ collected Rs 30,000 from each woman aspirant seeking jobs and Rs 560 from each woman with assurance of loan.
After learning that they were trapped by the fly- by- night company, the duped depositors are now running from pillar to post to get back their hard earned money.
Interestingly, neither did they know the addresses of the cheats nor do they have adequate information about the company’s activities.
Akshay Sahu ,Debaprkash Swain and Jyoti Swain identifying themselves as managing director, branch manager and cashier of the fraudulent company were collecting money from the women.
The rented house in Jaleswar town from where they were operating is now vacant and the mobile phones of the accused persons are switched off.
However, the victims gave the registration number of a bike used by the miscreants to the police.
Some of them while approached the local Jaleswar police, the latter began an investigation. IIC Jaleswar Pradip Majhi said the statements of the some of the victims have been deposited.
The local police suspecting the cheats were from Kisan Nagar area of Cuttack are in touch with their counterparts. The cheats alluring the gullible persons have allegedly collected money from Jaleswar, Sugo, Netua, Banida, Naschimpur, Sikharpur, Bhanupur, Nahanjia, Alalpur, Deuli, Panchaghanta, Panchughanta and Santia villages.
The locals demanded stern actions against the company personnel.