The Odisha Joint Entrance Examinations (OJEE) authorities on Thursday appealed to the OJEE aspirants not to go by website ‘www.odishajee14.com’ terming it as fake and lodged a complaint with the police urging stringent action against those who created the website leading to confusion among thousands of students.
“Some students on Thursday complained that www.odishajee14.com was available carrying dubious information on the examinations. Following this, we verified and found the complaint to be true. later, we lodged a complaint at Air Field Police station seeking immediate action against the miscreants,” said OJEE secretary Priyabratta Sahoo, clarifying that the original website of the OJEE is www.odishajee.com and advising the aspirants to follow it only.
Sahoo informed that the main motive of creating the bogus website is to make money by confusing the aspirants. Meanwhile, Technical Education secretary CS Kumar confirmed about the fake website and stated that he had written to the Commissioner of Police for immediate action against the guilty.
“We have received a complaint regarding creation of a fake OJEE website and started an investigation,” said Commissioner of Police Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma. Sources said the fake website was created on January 4 last. Meanwhile, the same has stopped functioning since complaints made with the police.