Bhubaneswar: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested a 52-year-old man from Bengal in connection with a fraud case dating back to 1997.

The accused, Sib Shankar Dey, was working with a Rourkela-based private company when he allegedly withdrew Rs 1.2 lakh from his employer's account through a forged cheque.

A CBI sleuth said the money was withdrawn from a nationalised bank branch in Rourkela in February 1997. He said after the fraud came to light, Dey's employer approached the bank, which subsequently handed over the case to the central agency.

The CBI had filed the charge sheet in the case 2001 and the accused appeared regularly in court in the state capital during trials till 2008.

"However, the accused did not appear from 2008 and an arrest warrant was issued against him. Subsequently, he was arrested from Ghola, around 20km from Calcutta, in Bengal in the early hours of Thursday. He is being produced in a court in Bengal and will be brought to Bhubaneswar under transit remand," said a CBI sleuth.

In another case of cheating, Nayapalli police on Thursday arrested a 32-year-old from Dhenkanal for allegedly cheating an employee of the Indian Coast Guard of Rs 30,000. The accused, identified as Rahul Swain, had received the money from the complainant, Lakhvir Singh, in July to sell his two-wheeler.

"The accused had posted an advertisement on Olx to sell the vehicle for Rs 30,000. The complainant has contacted him in July and subsequently met Swain near Nayapalli," said a police officer.

"The victim handed over Rs 30,000 in cash to him but the accused managed to deceive him and escaped from the spot on the pretext of bringing the vehicle documents," he said.

The police said Swain was facing similar cases in Dhenkanal district.