By Express News Service
JAJPUR: At least 40 college students from 4 districts have been allegedly duped of round Rs 8 lakh by a miscreant on pretext of facilitating their BEd admissions in an Andhra Pradesh (AP)-based college. According to a criticism filed with Dharmasala police station on Friday, the accused Abhijit Das had launched himself because the college agent to the BEd aspiring candidates final yr.
He had reportedly promised to confess them within the programme in addition to assist them go the BEd examinations. Apart from taking their HSC, +2 and +3 certificates for admission functions, Das had taken Rs 20,000 from every pupil who opted for the course.
Sources stated not less than 40 college students from Bhadrak, Balasore, Cuttack and Jajpur had taken admission into BEd course by means of Das. Last week, they have been requested by the agent to go to AP to take the examination scheduled to begin from July 21. Das reportedly requested the scholars to attend for him at Jaraka bus stand as they have been speculated to take the practice to AP from Bhubaneswar. But the scholars acquired suspicious when Das didn’t flip up and his cell phone was discovered switched off. On discovering his aide Sandip Kumar Nayak’s cellular unreachable as properly, the scholars suspected foul play and filed a police criticism.
“As we do not have any access to the AP-based university for the BEd course, we took help of Das. We paid Rs 20,000 each for admission and gave him all original certificates last year,” stated Manasi Malik, one of many candidates. Contacted, Dharmasala IIC Rakesh Tripathy stated police have began an investigation after registering a case. No arrest has been made until now.
JAJPUR: At least 40 college students from 4 districts have been allegedly duped of round Rs 8 lakh by a miscreant on pretext of facilitating their BEd admissions in an Andhra Pradesh (AP)-based college. According to a criticism filed with Dharmasala police station on Friday, the accused Abhijit Das had launched himself because the college agent to the BEd aspiring candidates final yr.
He had reportedly promised to confess them within the programme in addition to assist them go the BEd examinations. Apart from taking their HSC, +2 and +3 certificates for admission functions, Das had taken Rs 20,000 from every pupil who opted for the course.
Sources stated not less than 40 college students from Bhadrak, Balasore, Cuttack and Jajpur had taken admission into BEd course by means of Das. Last week, they have been requested by the agent to go to AP to take the examination scheduled to begin from July 21. Das reportedly requested the scholars to attend for him at Jaraka bus stand as they have been speculated to take the practice to AP from Bhubaneswar. But the scholars acquired suspicious when Das didn’t flip up and his cell phone was discovered switched off. On discovering his aide Sandip Kumar Nayak’s cellular unreachable as properly, the scholars suspected foul play and filed a police criticism.
“As we do not have any access to the AP-based university for the BEd course, we took help of Das. We paid Rs 20,000 each for admission and gave him all original certificates last year,” stated Manasi Malik, one of many candidates. Contacted, Dharmasala IIC Rakesh Tripathy stated police have began an investigation after registering a case. No arrest has been made until now.