Odisha police unearth job racket, arrest mastermind from Bihar
Bhubaneswar (PTI): The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Police has arrested the alleged mastermind of an inter-state employment racket from Bihar for allegedly duping government job seekers of more than Rs six crore using a fake website.
The arrested man is being brought to Bhubaneswar on transit remand from Hatua area in Gopalganj district of Bihar for his production before the court of SDJM here, the EOW said in a statement.
The accused had developed a website, which looked similar to that of a government website, displaying job advertisements.
He also had offices in states like Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Punjab and Haryana, the statement said.
Lakhs of aspirants had applied for posts like block coordinator, computer operator and block surveyor from 2020 onwards by paying the application fees.
The applicants enrolled were made to sit in online examinations. However, none of them was given appointments and was deliberately disqualified, the EOW said.
The amounts collected from the candidates landed in different bank accounts controlled or managed by the accused Dharampal Singh who was arrested on February 15.
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Trump says suspect was armed with multiple weapons at WH correspondents' dinner
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump is addressing reporters at the White House after he and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after a shooting incident outside the ballroom.
Trump said the suspect was armed with multiple weapons before stopped by Secret Service. One officer was shot, but he was protected by a bulletproof vest.
“He was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun, and the vest did the job,” Trump said.
