Odisha: Absconding accused arrested in multi-crore recruitment fraud case

BHUBANESWAR: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police arrested an absconding fraudster, who had been on the run in a job fraud case since 2023, from New Delhi, informed a senior official on Monday.

The accused, identified as Gautam Kumar, a resident of Khagaria district in Bihar, was arrested from the Rohini area of New Delhi on December 11, 2025. He was later produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate, Rohini, New Delhi and brought to Odisha on transit remand.

After coming across a fake advertisement published in a local Odia daily on December 28, 2022, the EOW initiated an investigation into the matter, registering a case in this regard in January 2023. The advertisement was published in the name of “Gramin Rojgar Kalyan Sansthan” (GRKS), inviting applications for various jobs like District and Block Coordinator, Computer Operator, Block Surveyor, etc, prescribing the required educational qualification and the remuneration for the individual posts.