Fake NABARD Director Trying To Dupe Retired Govt Employee Caught In Odisha :   Bhubaneswar: A man posing as the director of National Bank fo...

Fake NABARD Director Trying To Dupe Retired Govt Employee Caught In Odisha :

 

Bhubaneswar: A man posing as the director of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) was caught by locals while allegedly trying to dupe a retired government employee in Balakati area on outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

The accused has been identified as Asmit Sethy. The locals handed him over to the police for appropriate action.

Reports said that the accused had earlier duped the same person in guise of OMFED director when the victim was in service five years ago.

However, the fake official fell into his own trap laid to cheat his old target for second time.

Sources said that Asmit visited residence of Damburudhar Biswal, a retired Livestock Inspector, at Sisilo village at around 1.30 PM on Saturday in his car. Introducing himself as the NABARD director, he asked Biswal to produce his office documents for verification. But, the latter raised doubt over it as he has already been retired from the service. In the meantime, he identified the person and recollected the incident occurred with him 5 years ago. 

The accused had allegedly defrauded him of Rs 2,500 showing error in official records. But, the duped official had not approached the police against the accused after he realised that the OMFED director was a fraud.

The Livestock Inspector got retired from his service on July 31. It is suspected that the fraud had laid a trap to blackmail the retired official by revealing or publicizing any ‘unknown’ mischief made by him when he was in service.

On receiving information, the police took him to the outpost under Balianta Police Station in Bhubaneswar Urban Police District for interrogation into the allegation.