JAMMU: Unearthing a nexus wherein Jammu based students were being cheated for admission to professional colleges in foreign countries, the Crime Branch wing of J&K Police on Tuesday booked owner and employees of a Jalandhar based company Pyramid-e-Services involved in the racket.
The Jalandhar based company had set up its office in Hall No. 109/A-I, 1st Floor North Block, Bahu Plaza, Jammu and was engaged in alluring the innocent candidates and their parents on the pretext of sending them abroad to various professional colleges, though neither the company was registered for carrying out its business at Jammu nor it had the mandate to send candidates to various foreign professional colleges. The bogus company used to fleece the aspirants of their hard earned money in lakhs.
The Ministry of External Affairs under the Emigration Act, 1983 has only authorized the firm only for the purpose of carrying out the business of recruitment for deployment of Indian workers with foreign employers within the jurisdiction of Jalandhar city. However, they opened their office in Jammu to befool local students.
The Crime Branch, Jammu has booked Bahvnoor Singh Bedi (Director), son of Jatinder Singh Bedi and Jatinder Singh (Diretctor), son of Sharm Singh, both residents of H. No 331 New Jawahar Nagar Jalandhar-I who had opened office at Hall No. 109/A-l, 1st Floor North Block, Bahu Plaza, Jammu which was functioning through its management, comprising Rahul Dev, Regional Manager, Arundeep Singh, CRO, Vinod Kundal, Branch Manager. They were functioning as agents of various professional colleges of foreign countries, under the strength of registration certificate issued by the Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs under No. B-0800/PUN/COM/1000+/5/9061/2014 and the authorization of six foreign colleges, were collecting fees amounting to lakhs of rupees from candidates on the pretext of providing admissions to them in these colleges, abroad.
The cost of the basic registration form was Rs 27, 000 which they are alleged to have sold to hundreds of Jammu based students.
It was also found that the hefty fee structure was prepared by them at their own level and that the company had not obtained any authorization from the competent authority for running the business at Jammu.
This company, in violation of the norms, had intentionally opened its office at Jammu for an altogether different nature of business for which there was no such provision and in the process had allured and contacted about nine candidates, through print and electronic media, from whom they have obtained an amount of Rs. 27,000 each as application/registration fees, by resorting to fraudulent means, merely in order to cheat the local students aspiring to study abroad.