Bhopal

Placement officer accused of cheating women of Rs40l in name of providing them jobs

PNS

A placement officer of a private college has been accused of cheating a woman and her colleagues of Rs 40 lakh in the name of providing jobs to them.

The victim who had been running from pillar to post to get justice for the past few months today met Indore range DIG Santosh Kumar Singh and complained about the accused. Taking due cognizance of her complain, the DIG directed the authority concerned of taking suitable action.

Talking to media persons outside the DIG office, the complainant Divya Jain who runs a placement  agency in the city, said that the then training and placement officer of  RKDF College Rahul Jain in  October last year had  informed her about arrival of some big multi-national companies to Indore for recruitments. Believing him, she had sent 70 students to him for the placement.

After sometime, Rahul Jain arrangement a placement camp and after interviewing students, he gave them job offer letters of different companies. The complainant alleged that the accused in the name of providing job to students had charged a sum of Rs 40 lakh from her which she had collected from various students.

She said  that forgery came to light when these students visited the companies along with their offer letter and to their utter dismay came to know that no campus recruitment drives has been arranged  by these companies.

The complainant said that   when she came to know about the forgery, she went to police station to a lodge a complaint against the accused but no action was taken on her complaint.

Finally she met Indore range DIG and briefed him about the incident, seeking suitable action against the accused. The DIG after listing to her complaint entrusted ‘We Care For You’ officials to probe into the matter.