Bhubaneswar: A day after conducting a polygraph test on fake doctor Ramesh Swain, the Commissioner Police on Thursday arrested his driver Pappu, who had been absconding, from Ranpur in Odisha’s Nayagarh district.
Police suspect his involvement in fraudulent activities and are currently interrogating him at an undisclosed location, sources said, adding that a case related to a job scam is pending against him at Khandagiri police station.
On the other hand, police seized an incubator worth over Rs 1 lakh during a raid on Swain’s poultry at Patkura in Kendrapada district.
The 66-year-old, arrested last month for alleging conning several women in Odisha and outside the state into marriage and then cheating them of huge sums of money, was subjected to the lie detector test at the state forensic science laboratory (SFSL) here on Wednesday for about three hours and asked at least 70 questions, the TOI reported.
Bhubaneswar DCP had told the media that they had requested a polygraph test since Swain never cooperated with police during the probe despite taking him thrice on remand. Besides duping 18 women, he was also involved in other types of frauds in and outside the state.
Though police had arrested his stepsister, Rashmita Beura, for allegedly helping him reinforce his identity as a doctor and win the trust of the women and their families, whom he targetted through matrimonials published in newspapers, they had been struggling to trace his properties and accomplices.
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