Rourkela: Police Monday busted a job racket by arresting its kingpin, a dismissed OSAP constable, and his four accomplices accused of defrauding gullible youths of over Rs 50 lakh by promising them employment in Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), banks and the railways.
The accused were identified as Sushil Dung Dung, a retrenched constable of Orissa Special Armed Police (OSAP) and a resident of quarter no-A-233 at Koel Nagar here.
Dung Dung was the mastermind of the racket and his accomplices Prakash Chandra Pradhan, a sanitary inspector in Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC), sanitary worker Anil Minz, Sunil Minz of Rourkela Steel Plant and Amit Kumar Minz were arrested on the basis of his admission. This was stated by deputy superintendent of police (DSP) PK Mishra while addressing the media here Monday.
Four cars – Hyundai Santro, Maruti Ciaz, Tata Indigo and Mahindra Scorpio, three motorcycles, over 15 fake appointment letters, bank passbooks, medical attendance registers, ATM cards and testimonials of unemployed youths were seized from their possession. The number of seized documents might exceed as the search is yet to get completed.
The fraud came to the fore after a group of job aspirants Friday beat up Dung Dung here and handed him over to Sector-3 police. Police then registered a case and started an investigation.
Mishra said Sushil, a native of Kacharu village under Kuanrmunda block, took a house on rent at Koel Nagar after his dismissal from OSAP service June 20, 2011 and defrauded gullible youths on the promise of providing them jobs in PSUs, banks and railways.
He formed a racket and tracked tribal youths with the false assurance of jobs with the help of the RSP employee and RMC sanitary worker and his other accomplices. Sushil lavishly spent his earnings on luxury cars, holidays in Goa and parties in luxury hotels.
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he racket’s collections differed from person to person and ranged between Rs 2 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh on the basis of the job category. While they promised employment to some in RSP, RMC and Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH), for others it was in Tata, power distribution company WESCO and the district collectorate. They even gave fake appointment letters to some aspirants.
They conducted interviews at Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Rourkela to avoid suspicion among aspirants. The recovery of over 15 fake appointment letters carrying the signatures of the collector and Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO) has raised many eyebrows.
What is more surprising is that the fraudsters even conducted interviews at the sanitary office of RMC. PNN
