SAMBALPUR: He is all suited up and the perfect gentleman living next door. Only that he has mastered a different skill. The academic qualifications apart, he has mastered the art of conning.Sample Tripurari Pradhan. Mastermind of the dacoity at the Jarda branch of State Bank of India in Sundergarh district on June 6, Pradhan completed his post-graduation and M Phil from Pune. He has also worked as a lecturer in a college in Kuchinda sub-division. He told the police he left the job for the meagre salary it fetched.Be it fleecing customers for financial returns, luring prospective job-seekers, floating fake companies or petty crimes like bike-lifting, the suave and educated have made their mark. A post-graduate in Physics, Managing Director of AM Financial Nabakishore Mohapatra was alleged of duping customers of about ` 20 crore, luring them with promises of higher returns.Kingpin of a bike-lifting gang, Ritesh Pradhan of Banjipali in Kuchinda is a diploma engineer. He and his three accomplices were nabbed in March this year. Clinical psychologist Chapala Mishra attributes this trend to a tenacity of making big money really quick. “The desire to turn heads with modern gadgets and swanky cars force youths to take to the wrong path,” she added.The trend has rubbed on the affluent ones too. Narsingh Lal Agrawal from Bagdihi in Jharsuguda holds a civil engineering degree. Now he is languishing behind the bars for allegedly duping investors. Agrawal did a Ramalinga Raju by transferring funds in ABCIndia.com/Prime, an online portal, to companies floated by him.The lure of money has the fairer sex giving a run to its counterpart. Soudamini Nath would vouch for it. A former employee with the Purchase Department of SEPCO, she allegedly fleeced job-seekers of about ` 30 lakh with promises of employment in SEPCO and VAL.
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