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Odisha EOW arrests scamster involved in job frauds in 17 States

Odisha EOW arrests scamster involved in job frauds in 17 States

The Hindu
Saturday, February 18, 2023 4:06 PM GMT

The EOW has recovered ₹6.6 crore from the accused

 

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in Odisha has a arrested a man, who is allegedly involved in a multi-crore job fraud case operating in at least 17 State, from Bihar.

The accused, Dharampal Singh, is the secretary of ‘Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan’ having its registered office in New Delhi and other cities like Mumbai, Bhopal and Dehradun, was a scamster and had developed the website resembling a government website to cheat job aspirants, said Jai Narayan Pankaj, Inspector-General of Police and head of the EOW.

The EOW has recovered around ₹6.6 crore from the accused.

After his arrest from Hathua in Bihar on February 15, he was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Gopalganj, and he was brought to Bhubaneswar on transit remand for five days.

“He is one of the main masterminds of this job racket operating in at least 17 States. The accused used to invite applications for various jobs like district and block coordinator, computer operator and block surveyor prescribing the educational qualification and the remuneration for the individual posts,” said Mr. Pankaj.

According to EOW, the advertisements were published on website www.grks.org, while job seekers were required to submit their application through web only. “To gain the confidence of the job seekers the accused persons offered reservations and concessional fee as it is done in government job,” said Mr. Pankaj. Moreover, advertisements were given in a majority of mainstream newspapers.

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