KalingaTimes Correspondent
Kendrapara, Sept 11: Acting on the directive of the National Human Rights Commission, the police have registered a criminal case against a 25-year-old net-savvy married woman and seven others on alleged cyber fraud charge.

Earlier last week, the NHRC has issued directives to district police for expeditious inquiry and submission of report in this regard within four weeks.

An Odia engineer drawing fat six-digit salary in Gulf had allegedly fallen prey to e-mail correspondences with the woman. He was duped to the tune of Rs 13.38 lakh.

For expeditious investigation, the case is being referred to the cyber crime detection wing of crime branch wing of state police, said officials.

The victim engineer, Jitendra Kumar Nayak, employed in MEP construction company in Dubai , had come in close acquaintance with the accused lady, Kaveri Patra, through a popular marriage bureau website.

The self-proclaimed IT professional woman later trapped him in a love drama and fleeced the 27-year-old youth from Pattamundai area of Kendrapara. In the process, Jitendra's Rs 13 lakh bank balance was emptied in Dubai.

The complainant was engrossed in chatting with the accused woman almost on a daily basis. It soon blossomed into an intimate love affair with both pledging to become life partners. During the course of affair, the woman begged for financial help on various pretext.

Jitendra little knowing that a trap has been laid for him went ahead with online western union money transfer from United Arab Emirates exchange.

The gullible youth parted with over Rs 13 lakh in 23 online monetary exchanges in between September 23, 2007 and January 7, 2008. Since January 8, the self-styled IT professional, whom he never met physically, severed cyber tie.