38 candidates in Odisha’s Bolangir district who were chosen for various positions in the postal service through Grameen Dak Seva were discovered to have submitted fake matric mark sheets and certificates. Four days later, police in the district arrested 19 people, among them 19 candidates.
Police arrested 19 persons including the mastermind of the racket who had been selling such mark sheets for anything between 50,000 and 5 lakh.Police have detained 53-year-old mastermind Manoj Mishra and 18 other suspects, according to Bolangir Superintendent of Police (SP) Nitin Kushalkar, and have confiscated 5,000 phoney credentials from a coaching centre he ran in the city.

Mishra operated the Reliance Educational Complex, a teaching facility, where he supplied bogus diplomas and mark sheets for 40 institutions and universities in the states of Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya, New Delhi, and Jharkhand.Together with the GDS fraud, he has also extorted money from a number of victims and individuals by promising to provide them jobs in the government. PSUs like the state revenue department, Indian Railways, and Coal India Limited,jobs in education, nursing, and pharmacy. In addition to the district of Bolangir, the scam was also active in the districts of Bargarh, Kalahandi, Boudh, Sonepur, and Dhenkanal, as well as in other states than Odisha. This scam employs a lot of middlemen, according to the SP.