3 Fraudsters Arrested For Duping Job Seekers In Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police has arrested three persons from Odisha and outside for allegedly duping unemployed youths lakhs of rupees on plea of giving employment.

According to a release of the Commissionerate Police on Saturday, the three persons were arrested following investigation into a complaint about unauthorised use of his bank.

As per the complaint, some unknown persons fraudulently approached the complainant to provide some account numbers for labor payment in November 2022. They told him that he would get cash payment of Rs 1,500 for each account. The complainant provided his Indian Bank account to those persons.

After some days, he suspected that huge transactions were made through his account. Later, he visited the bank’s branch and came to know that his account has been marked debit freeze by Cyber Police Station due to illegal and suspicious transactions made online.

During investigation, it came to light that the fraudsters had deceived the people on false assurances and used their bank accounts to utilise the cheated amount.

The Cyber Police analysed the WhatsApp chat history of accused Sandeep Kumar Bai and came to know that he was taking the interview of job seekers as HR Manager of reputed companies like Nalco, Jindal and Vedanta and was giving them job offer.

Another accused, Rajesh Samantray was providing the hired accounts and pre-activated SIM cards from the locality for receiving fraudulent money from the victims, while the third accused, Raj Sinha used to send job vacancy related fake advertisements to the job seekers and finalise deal of minimum Rs 40,000 for each selected candidate in an advance. The three fraudsters has duped several unemployed persons from Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

While Rajesh, belonging to Haryana, was staying in Khurda, Raj is from Ashok Nagar in East Delhi and was staying in Noida, Uttar Pradesh and Sandeep belongs to Kendrapada and was staying at Sundarpada in Bhubaneswar. They have been forwarded to court after arrest.