‘Will pay back students the deposited amount’
It is a case of cheating, will take action after complaint is lodged: DIG Bhat
Srinagar, Nov 27 (KNS): A Srinagar based ‘job placement consultancy’ has allegedly duped six Post Graduate students across the Valley, promising them jobs in Gulf, but cheated with them all after taking lakhs of rupees from them.
Al Noor India Education and Placement, that runs its office in Munawarabad in Dalgate here, had in March this year promised teaching jobs in Omam in Gulf, and he took lakhs of money from the six students, the candidate said.
Among the students are Mudasir Sadiq Mir from Lolab Kupwara, Tasaduq Khalil from Lar, Ganderbal, Lailaul Qadr from Bandipora, Nuzhat Qadir from Rajouri Kadal and Sania from Batmaloo in Srinagar.
The students said that Sania was paid all the money back after “she told the consultancy to lodge complaint with police and highlight it in the media.”
All these duped candidates have Masters in English and Linguistics from University of Kashmir.
The students said that the so-called placement consultancy, which Qadfeen Choudhary claimed to own, had advertised teaching jobs for Oman.
“We applied for the jobs through the so-called Al Noor India Placement Consultancy. Our interviews were conducted by two delegates, whom Qadfeen claimed were from Oman. But actually they looked South Indian. After the interview some of us were called by phone and some by emails that we have been selected for the jobs,” the candidates told KNS.
“Following it, Qadfeen Choudhary asked us to deposit money in his account to be spent for their visas to Oman,” they said.
Mudassir and Tasaduq said they both paid Rs 2.40 lakh, Rs1.20 lakh each. Lailatul Qadr said she paid Rs 75,000; Nuzhat, whose father is a mason, said she paid Rs 72,000 through checques to him.
Among these Tasaquq, Lailtul Qadr are orphans, and have raised loans to pay to Qadfeen.
“Qadfeen assured us that they will soon get visas to Oman but till now neither we have got our visas not money. The so-called consultancy cheated with us and ruined our careers,” the students told KNS.
The students said that Qadfeen paid us “fraud” cheques which “bounced” after they went to the Bank. “His account had only Rs 125 in it when I went to bank to withdraw the cheque,” Mudassir said.
The students said they did not got to police to complaint “because we thought we will get our money back amicably. But today, we thought to highlight it to save other educated students from being duped.”
Deputy Inspector General of Police, Central Kashmir Range, Ghulam Hassan Bhat told KNS that police will take action against the people who have duped the students.
“It is a case of cheating. We will take action against the consultancy and the person who has cheated with the educated students after they file a complaint with police,” Bhat told KNS.
Qadfeen Choudhary told KNS that the candidates have “deposited the money with the consultancy as security which is all refundable (refund is mentioned in their receipts). Out of this amount, I have refunded to some of them. And now only four are remaining, out of which two have been paid 50 % of the amount. I will pay the remaining amount to the candidates within a week,” Qadfeen said.
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