One person who allegedly cheated two local residents of Wokha town to the tune of Rs 15 lakhs is now in the custody of Wokha police.
UBSI R Lochumbeni, the investigating officer of the case, told Nagaland Post that one Jiten Ojha (38), son of Lt. Surya Kt. Ojha from Hajo village, Bharali Tula in Assam’s Kamrup district reportedly duped the two locals by convincing them that he would arrange for an egg agency to be opened at Dimapur and Wokha town and that they would be given the distributorships for the same. Jiten further convinced them to pay him Rs 15 lakhs as advance which they did. This happened in the month of March, 2013.
It said the two locals waited for Jiten to open the egg agency for them as promised but Jiten started offering one excuse or the other through phone. After much waiting, the duo went to meet Jiten in Guwahati, Assam, in the later part of 2013. But on meeting them, instead of giving them the distributorships for eggs according to their deal, Jiten told them that he had invested their money in some black money business. Moreover, instead of returning their money, Jiten tried to convince them to also invest in the black money business which involved smuggling in huge bundles of silver-coated currency notes in the denominations of Rs 100 and Rs 500 and washing the coats off with some chemicals to make the currency notes clean and ‘genuine’ ones. The duo returned empty handed to Nagaland but on arrival filed a complaint at Wokha Police Station. In the course of the investigation, Wokha police sent a team twice to Hajo village in Assam to nab the accused but both times Jiten did not show up in his place of permanent residency.
Finally, Wokha police, through their sources, got information that Jiten had been arrested by Assam police in Guwahati on January 9, 2015 along with Rs 59,000 counterfeit currency notes in the denomination of Rs 500. On receiving this information, Wokha police sent a team to Guwahati, Assam, with a production warrant and brought the accused to Wokha on January 19, 2015.
On interrogation, Jiten has reportedly told Wokha police that silver-coating of the currency notes makes them detection-proof and that they were available for purchase somewhere in the Garo Hills in the state of Meghalaya. Also, the chemicals used for washing the silver coat off the currency notes are reportedly available in Siliguri in the state of West Bengal.
Interestingly, the chemicals are reportedly of 3 qualities with the best quality costing around Rs. 7-8 lakhs per litre.
Wokha police also informed that the accused was in judicial custody and that further investigation in the case was progressing.
Thursday, February 19, 2026