ES Reporter

ITANAGAR, Sep 8 : In a major breakthrough, special investigation team has arrested one Dipjyoti Das alias Jintu Kumar,  of  Sanpara, Kamrup district, Assam in connection with a multi-crore financial scam.
Speaking to the media, Superintendent of Police, SIT, Rohit Rajbir Singh informed that the accused was operating the financial scam from Guwahati.
The Modus Operandi adopted by the accused was that he used to pose as an employee of the PSU IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation Limited). His aim was to target young impressionable youths of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam with an offer that he could provide employment to them at the IOCL unit at Noonmati in Guwahati, Assam as he had access to Employee Quota. Furthermore, he used to charge a deposit fee from the victims if they wanted to access this quota.
Another fraudulent ploy was that he offered to procure Licenses for Petrol Pumps and LPG Gas Agencies. For this too, he used to charge a handsome fee.  Both these fraudulent schemes had no substance, and unsuspecting victims got cheated of crores of money, informed SP-SIT.
Acting swiftly on the information, the SIT constituted the team comprising Inspector Techi Vijay, SI Wokim Mungray, H/Ct. D. K. Jha, H/Ct Tashi Tsering and Ct. (D) J. Sikom under the supervision  of SP- SIT  registered a case no. 8/22 u/s 419,420,468,120-B IPC, and after careful planning, apprehended the accused person.   It has come to notice that an amount of 1.18 crores has been cheated from just one victim, and more such victims are now being assisted by SIT. The total cheated amount has crossed over 2.5 crore, stated SP Singh.

The SP further disclosed that, till now, an amount of Rs 7,14,000 (seven Lakh fourteen thousand only) has been recovered and a building has been identified which has been built by the accused using these proceeds of crime. An application has been submitted before the Court for liquidation of a three-storied building costing around 1.85 crore, built in a plot of land in Sanpara vide Patta No-133, Daag No-756 by accused Dipjyoti Das with the cheated money.
SIT also recovered,  2 nos of phone, 7 debit cards, 1 PAN card, 1 Driving License, 1 ID card of IOCL and other incriminating documents from the possession of accused Dipjyoti Das. Furthermore, SIT is interrogating various beneficiaries to identify other accomplices, informed SP-SIT.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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