Sambalpur: Sambalpur cyber police Thursday arrested a lecturer of Dr Jhasketan Sahu College, located at Parmanpur, on charges of sending a mail to the College principal from a fake email ID of the Higher Education department.
The accused lecturer has been identified as Paresh Bhoi who worked as an Economics lecturer at Dr Jhasketan Sahu College. The college is affiliated to Sambalpur University.
Later, he was produced in a court, it was learnt.
According to a source, college principal Sandhyarani Mishra had received a mail from the Higher Education department few days ago. In the mail she was asked as to why action will not be taken in connection with the corruption in clerk appointment.
Mishra contacted the Higher Education department and enquired about the mail. Later, she got to know that the mail was a fake one.
In this regard, she lodged a report at the cyber police station here. Taking the case seriously, the police launched a probe and found Bhoi as the sender of the mail from the fake email ID of the Higher Education department.
The police said the accused lecturer had learnt the process of creating fake IDs and deactivating them, from YouTube videos.
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