TV channel owner Das held for fraud

The Commissionerate police on Tuesday arrested a television channel owner on charges of duping an ex-Service man of the city.

The accused is Manoj Das, managing director (MD) of Kamyab TV.

He was apprehended by the Markatnagar police under Sections 420 and 34 of IPC following complaint by former Army personnel Bisweswar Rout.

The complaint, a resident of CDA area in the city accused Das of defrauding him of Rs 20 lakh on the guise of providing him a job at his television channel.

Reports said Das had taken the money from Rout promising him of a job in his television channel in February 2019. After Rout did not receive any appointment letter from the organisation, he lodged a complaint against Das and his associate Ashok Patnaik, who had introduced him with the accused.