On Sunday, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Police detained a suspect from Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh who was allegedly involved in the “largest job fraud scheme” in the nation.
The person who was detained, Arpit Panchal, a native of Jaora in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam, was an IT expert who had created nine websites that were used to lure young people into applying for government employment and defraud large sums of money.
“In connection with a job fraud racket, busted by EOW in the last week of 2022, which was operated by Aligarh-based engineers, we have arrested another operative of the racket, who is also an engineer,” EOW Inspector General Jaya Narayan Pankaj said.
“Arpit Panchal was arrested from Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam, he was a website developer in the racket and had developed nine websites for the gang. The websites were designed in such a manner, which looked like government websites and advertised government jobs to the people on the fake website portal,” the senior cop said, adding that we have got a list of around 22,000 persons, who were victims of these websites.
The victims, or the young people looking for work, were from Gujarat and Odisha, according to the police.
The authorities are looking into victims from various states, including West Bengal, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh.
It should be noted that Arpit Panchal later appeared before the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Court in Bhubaneswar to request the accused’s transit remand.
The police are currently looking into this situation.
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In connection with the case, Zafar Ahmed, a 25-year-old resident of Civil Lines, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, was detained by EOW, according to the Odisha Police.
Prasanta Patnaik