Jajpur: Police arrested a man involved in many cyber crime cases on Thursday night here.
The accused has been identified as Jitendra Kumar Sahoo of Parakula village in Patakura police limits in Kendrapara district. He was held near N.C.College in Jajpur district by a special squad headed by Jajpur sub divisional police officer Prasanta Kumar Mallha.
A car, a laptop, 18 mobile phones, 36 SIM cards, 12 ATM cards and 9 bank passbooks of different banks, 7 cheque books and cash were recovered from him, Mallha said.
The special squad consisted of the Balichandrapur police station inspector in charge, Rakesh Kumar Tripathy, along with assistant sub-inspector Manas Ranjan Chakra, constable Hrudananda Sahoo and home guard platoon commander Umakanta Behera. District police head quarter cyber cell in-charge Ranjan Kumar Behera also assisted the squad, he said.
The police said Sahoo called up people posing as a senior official of Accredited Health Social Activist (Asha) headquarter office and he asked Asha workers to reveal their bank account numbers and ATM pin numbers to deposit money in their accounts. Many workers revealed their pin number and later they were cheated.
"The accused used to target Asha workers and women and lured them of depositing money in their bank accounts under government welfare schemes," Mallha said.
The SDPO said the accused used mobile SIM cards issued on fake ID cards.He came to police net after an Asha worker, identified as Sanjukta Nayak of Baidyarajpur, filed a complaint with the Jajpur town police.
According to the police, Sahoo called up Nayak and asked the her to reveal her bank account number and ATM pin number to avail Rs 6500 under Janani Surakshya Yojana. When Nayak gave her bank account number and ATM pin , an amount of Rs 11,500 was deducted from her account after a while. When the money was deducted, the Nayak tried to contact Sahoo, but she failed to do so.
Police said more than 30 cases of cyber crime were registered against the accused at various police stations.
Sahoo was forwarded to the local court on Friday and remanded to judicial custody after his bail plea was rejected.
