Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police arrested two fraudsters for allegedly duping a medical aspirant of Rs 30 lakh in the pretext of getting her admission in a medical college here.
The fraudsters have been identified as Abhimanyu Kumar Singh and Sugat Choudhury. They were arrested from Kolkata and Patna by the Infocity Police.
The duo has been collecting money from medical aspirants for the last 10 years promising them enrollment in medical colleges, informed DCP Prateek Singh.
The Infocity police had begun an investigation into the incident following a complaint lodged by a girl on May 5.
While one of the accused was arrested from Kolkata, another was nabbed from Patna railway station.
The police also seized Rs 10 lakh cash, two laptops, four mobile phones and a fake Aadhaar card, used in the illegal activities carried by the fraudsters.