Tag: Duping

Bhubaneswar: While the admission process at various private and government medical colleges across the State kicked off today, the Commissionerate Police arrested a middleman on charges of defrauding people of Rs 30 lakh on pretext of facilitating admission into MBBS course. The arrested person, identified as Sunil Samantray was held for reportedly cheating aspirants of […]

  Cuttack: A man was arrested today by the Cuttack police and forwarded to the court for duping money from people by faking his son’s cancer. The accused has been identified as Sukant Puhana from Gudari area of Bhadrak. According to sources, Puhana lied to an employee of a private media house that his son […]

Balasore: Police on Sunday detained a person for allegedly duping students on the pretext of helping them to clear plus II examination in the district. The accused Umakant Singh, a resident of Nilagiri area had allegedly taken Rs 20,000 each from over 40 students. Singh posing as a teacher had approached the students and lured […]

Bolangir: One Iswar Chandra Das, has been found absconding after allegedly duping several women of nearly Rs 1 crore in Bolangir district. According to sources, Das cheated a large number of women on the pretext of providing them loan at a lower rate of interest. Reports said Das opened a company named Bandhan Finance Private […]

Puri: Kumbharapada police on Friday arrested a man for allegedly duping lakhs of rupees by identifying himself as a CBI official. The accused has been identified as Rashmi Ranjan Das. According to sources, Das has duped people worth lakhs of rupees after promising them jobs and helping them with some works at the tehsildar office […]

A man accused of duping youths by promising them jobs through a fake website has been arrested in Mahanagar area here, police said today

Bhubaneswar: Several investors today alleged Hi-Tech Estate and Promoters Private Limited of duping them on the pretext of providing houses. According to sources, investors alleged that Hi-Tech Estate had collected lakhs of rupees from them in the name of providing them houses in Sunderpada area on the outskirts of the city. Though they had booked […]

Cuttack: In yet another case of cyber crime, a resident of CDA area in Cuttack lost Rs 30,000 after falling prey to a spam telephone call. The victim, Sanjay Mahakud, claims he lost the amount after following the instructions on the phone given by the person who identified himself as an employee of a financial […]

Bhubaneswar: Balakti police on Sunday detained a person for allegedly trying to dupe a retired government employee by posing as an official of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). The accused has been identified as Smith Sethi. Posing as NABARD official, Sethi allegedly barged into the house of retired Animal Husbandry department official […]