EOW ARRESTS ANOTHER ACCUSED IN FAKE JOB RACKET OF “GRAMIN ROJGAR KALYAN SANSTHAN”
Bureau,Odishabarta
Bhubaneswar:Economic Offences Wing, Bhubaneswar arrested another accused
Jairam Tiwari, a native of village-Nayangaon, Tulasia, PS-Mirganj, Dist.- Gopalganj, Bihar on 20.02.2023 from Bhubaneswar in EOW PS Case No.05 dt.25.01.2023 U/s 420/467/468/471/120-B IPC r/w Sec.66 (C) of IT Act. The arrested accused will be produced before the Hon’ble Court of SDJM, Bhubaneswar today i.e. on 21.02.2023.
The arrested accused is the main associate of Dharmapal Singh the mastermind of the racket, who has recently been arrested and forwarded in this case. The present accused as revealed so far has received and misappropriated Rs.35,83,000/- from the account of “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan”. He was also the co-producer of a film produced by the accused Secretary Dharmapal Singh from the amount received through the fakeadvertisements in the name of Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan.
1.He is one of the main accused persons of this job racket operating in at least 17 States i.e.
Madhya Pradesh Chattisgarh Uttarakhand Rajsthan Odisha TamilNadu Andhra Pradesh Telangana West Bengal Assam Himanchal Pradesh Uttarakhand Kerala Karnataka Jharkhand PumjabHaryana
2. The “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan” is having its registered office in New Delhi and other offices in Mumbai, Bhopal and Dehradun.
3. The scamsters had developed the website resembling a Govt website displaying the Govt like job advertisements.
4. “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan” (GRKS) invited application for various jobs like District and block coordinator, computer operator, block surveyor etc. prescribing the educational
qualification and the remuneration for the individual posts.
The advertisement also contained the name of the website www.grks.org, and the job seekers were required to submit their application through web only.
5. To gain the confidence of the job seekers they also offered reservations and concessional fee as it is done for Govt job.
6. They also give advertisement in local newspapers like
1) Dharitri & Samaj (Bhubaneswar)
2) Anandabazar Patrika & Bartman (Kolkata )
3) Hindustan & Dainik Jagaran (Dehradun )
4) Amar Ujala (Shimla)
5) Malayala Manorama (All Kerala)
6) Eenadu (All Andhra Pradesh and Telegana )
7) Patrika (All editions of Rajasthan)
8. They used to conduct online exam and interview too.
9.In the website they used to give syllabus for each post.
10. In their website they also warn the job seekers about Job Fraud
11. Being attracted by such advertisement which resembles to that of the Government, lakhs of unemployed youths across the nation applied for the posts from 2020 onwards by paying the required application fees
12. The applicants although were being made to sit in the online examination but none of them was being given appointments and were deliberately disqualified. In this way, GRKS was misappropriating the application fees amounting to Crores of rupees from the gullible job seekers. The amounts collected from the candidates were landed in different accounts
ultimately controlled/managed by the arrested accused who happens to be the Secretary of Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan.
13. They used to conduct fake scholarship online exam too.
14. The scamsters were using many shell/ sister companies for routing and money laundering the ill-gotten money. Like:
GURBA EDUTECH PRIVATE LIMITED, New Delhi
AMOGH SEVA FOUNDATION, New Delhi
UDYAMIT SEVA SAMITI FOUNDATION, New Delhi
YOTTA EDUTECH PRIVATE LIMITED, New Delhi
JPM INNOVATIVE SOLUTION PRIVATE LIMITED, New Delhi
Augstya Web
SUMITRA PRODUCTION, Mumbai
As of now transaction/ fraud/money laundering of about Rs.6.6 Crores has been traced.
One mobile phone and some incriminating documents relating to Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan have been seized from the possession of the accused Jairam Tiwari.
Further investigation is on.
Advisory
The general public especially the job seekers while coming across suchadvertisements for job should verify the authenticity of the advertisement at least from the concerned department of the Govt. They can also verify the details of the agency floating such advertisements with regard to its status, functioning and limitations.The used logo/website in the advertisement should be cross checked with
the authentic sources. If they suspect any such advertisement for job, they should bring it to the notice of the nearest Law Enforcement Agency.
