The Barbil police arrested one industrialist on Sunday on the charge of cheating and court forwarded the accused on Monday.
Sources close to Barbil IIC Jagannath Mallick revealed that Kabit Agrawal (32), owner of Pooja Sponge Iron plant near Rourkela, had a financial transaction to the tune of Rs 1.14 crore with mines owner SN Mohanty company of Barbil for a period from 2007 to 2009. M/s SN Mohanty had filed a FIR in the Barbil police station in 2014 to recover the unpaid amount, but since then, the accused was evading the police.
However, a police force went to Rourkela from Barbil and arrested Agrawal on December 3.