Kendrapara: A High Court lawyer Monday faced the wrath of five unemployed men. He was manhandled and detained by them outside Kendrapara court as his daughter had swindled them of lakhs of rupees promising government and private jobs. The lawyer was later handed over to Kendrapara Police.
Police sources said one Priyanka Priyadarshini Tripathy, the daughter of Surya Narayan Tripathy of Anjali Niwas in Badagada Brit Colony of Bhubaneswar, had allegedly duped five jobless youth promising them jobs and had extracted lakhs from them after giving fake appointment letters.
But when the duped men made inquiries about the jobs they came to know that the posting letters were fake.
When the duped men confronted Priyanka Priyadarshini and her father to return their money they failed to do so. They later filed a complaint at a Bhubaneswar police station.
Police sources said one Binod Bihari Sahoo, a resident of Karilopatana village in Patkura Police Station limits, gave Rs 2 lakh to Priyanka in 2017 after she told him that she was the office bearer–cum-mediator of a Central Government contractor named Biswajit Mishra and promised to get him a Data Entry Operator job in the Income Tax Department.
Priyanka gave Binod an appointment letter. But it was later proved a fake. When Priyanka failed to get a job for Binod she issued a cheque for Rs 2 lakh (No: 180193 dated 22.11.2017).
When the cheque was presented by Binod it bounced as the drawer’s signature was different. Binod approached a court regarding this.
Today Surya Narayan Tripathy came to the SDJM court of Kendrpara on behalf of his daughter in the cheque bounce case.
The men who were cheated by the father and daughter nabbed Surya Narayan Tripathy while he was returning from court and detained him. When police reached the spot he was handed over to the cops.
SI Antarjyami Biswal said that it was found that the lawyer’s daughter Priyanka Priyadarshini Tripathy had duped the men of Rs 4.90 lakh.
The lawyer later assured the cheated youths that he would return their money in instalments from February 2020. After that he was released from the police station Monday evening.
PNN