As many as 65 youths were duped in the name of providing jobs by a Non Government Organisation (NGO) in the district headquarters; around Rs 4 lakh has been duped by employee claimed the NGO.
The matter surfaced after wife of a news reporter applied for the job and paid the application fee but was not provided with the job and when the reporter went to enquire senior officials of the NGO from New Delhi during their visit threatened him and even tried to attack him.
Blue Cross and Blue Crescent Society along with Jai Gurudev Pracharak Samiti working for welfare works was engaged in the fraud. For application Rs650 to Rs700 was taken as application fee and interestingly no receipt of the payment made was provided to the applicants.
The NGO officials refused that it was application fee but it was donation but later confessed that one of their employees had committed the fraud and has duped people to the tune of Rs4 lakh in different districts and have provided fake receipts to applicants. The employee has been suspended and recovery of the money is under process and in case if the employee fails to return money legal action would be sought against him.
Jai Gurudev Pracharak Samiti has distributed pamphlets carrying advertisement of jobs having pay from Rs6,500 to Rs16,000.