Balasore: Police Sunday busted an interstate job racket with the arrest of several persons from a lodge in Digha, said a source.
Police arrested as many as nine persons and seized a bus, five cars, original certificates of the job seekers and some blank signed cheques from the racketeers.
Balasore District Superintendent of Police Sagarika Nath said that acting on a tip-off police intercepted some vehicles over the Brunei bridge and interrogated the occupants.
On the basis of information given by them, a raid was conducted by police at a lodge in Digha and arrested the racketeers. Police also rescued and let off 90 job aspirants who were brought to Digha by the scamsters and kept in the lodge.
The job aspirants who belong to different states were to take up the Combined Graduate Level Exam conducted by the Staff Selection Commission. The racketeers had provided them with fake question papers.
Nath said among the nine people arrested by Police one is from Bihar and another is from Vishakhapatnam.
The SP said the racketeers operate the racket across the country. They provided fake question papers of the examination to the job seekers before the test and collect between Rs 8 to Rs 16 lakh from each aspirant. Once the aspirants get the job they return their original certificates.
She said there is no question paper leak. The racketeers were just duping the jobseekers. At least three similar cases are reported from Aska, Balugaon and Nirakarpur police stations.
Further investigation in the case is underway, the SP said.
UNI