Bhubaneswar: Two inter-state fraudsters were arrested in Odisha capital on Saturday on charges of duping a girl of Rs 30 lakh on the promise of providing her with a seat in a medical college.
The Infocity police have recovered Rs 10 lakh cash from their possession of the two accused, identified as Abhimanyu Kumar Singh and Sugat Choudhury belonging to Patna in Bihar and Kolkata respectively.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused were involved in similar frauds in Karnataka, Bihar, Kolkata and Chhattisgarh. They were cheating medical aspirants by impersonating doctors of medical colleges in different states. They frequently changed names and created fake IDs.
They were nabbed on the basis of a complaint lodged by a girl on May 5. The accused had met the complainant as Amit Banerjee and Bikash Ranjan and had assured her of admission to a private medical college. However, they absconded after receiving the money.
“While one of the accused was arrested from Kolkata, the other was apprehended at Patna railway station,” said Bhubaneswar DCP Prateek Singh. Besides Rs 10 lakh in cash, two laptops, eight mobile phones and a fake Aadhaar card have been seized from them, he added.
