Police here on Sunday arrested an engineering pass-out for allegedly cheating two MBBS aspirants of Rs 50 lakh on the pretext of facilitating seats in a leading private medical college in the capital city.
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BHUBANESWAR: Police here on Sunday arrested an engineering pass-out for allegedly cheating two MBBS aspirants of Rs 50 lakh on the pretext of facilitating seats in a leading private medical college in the capital city.
The accused Sourabh Routray, who completed his engineering a couple of years ago, collected Rs 25 lakh each in cash from Lachhman Mohanty and Ramakrushna Mishra to ensure their admissions for MBBS course. Mohanty and Mishra, who hailed from Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, were offered one seat for a staggering Rs 80 lakh.
"Mohanty and Mishra agreed to pay Rs 80 lakh each to Routray to get MBBS seats in the medical college. In February, they paid Rs 25 lakh each to the accused, who is a middleman," said DCP Satyabrata Bhoi. "Routray handed over a bogus letter to the two students. The letter, which contained logo of the medical college, confirmed about their seats," Bhoi said.
The students smelt rat when they did not receive any correspondence from the college about admission date. "The students approached the medical college and showed the letter given to them by Routray. There, the students realized they were taken for a ride," Bhoi said.
The students lodged a complaint with Khandagiri police on Saturday. Police laid a trap and asked the students to call up Routray. When the students telephoned Routray, he demanded Rs 10 lakh more. "The students agreed and asked him to come to a place where we were already present to nab him. We strongly suspect he might have been running a racket to dupe such gullible students," said another police officer.
Police said the complainants came in contact of Routray through some former students of the medical college. Police will take Routray in remand for further questioning. His banks accounts are being verified, police said.
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