By Our Correspondent
BALASORE/BHUBANESWAR: In view of active role played by Balasore police led by SP Sagarika Nath under guidance of Eastern Range IGP, Himanshu Lal, a fake CHSEO Councillor, who extorted money from about 300 students of Balasore and Bhadrak to a tune of 3 lakhs, has been arrested.
A total of Rs 57,000 in cash, gold jewellery worth Rs 9 lakh, an expensive car and multiple bank ATMs have been seized from him, the police added.
Sources said, the Industrial Area police have arrested a man, posing as a senior official of CHSE, on the charges of extorting more than Rs 6 lakhs from more than 300 college students on the pretext of getting their examination marks increased.
The arrested man has been identified as Pradeep Das of Khannagar village under Sadar police station. He used to introduce himself as a senior officer of the higher education department and shell out money from students and their parents.
Pradeep has duped more than 300 students from different districts including Bhadrak, and Mayurbhanj also. He used to charge Rs 2,000 to Rs 10,000 per student by promising to increase their marks in Plus II examination papers.
