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Two booked for cheating student of Rs 12. 5 lakh on the pretext of admission abroad
Gurugram: Two persons were booked for allegedly cheating a student from Bengaluru of ₹12.5 lakh on the pretext of facilitating his admission in a university in Germany.
Gurugram: Two persons were booked for allegedly cheating a student from Bengaluru of ₹12.5 lakh on the pretext of facilitating his admission in a university in Germany. The suspects, who run an educational consultancy in the city, are on the run, the police said.
The duo told the victim, who is registered with the consultancy, that they had a sub-branch of an organisation that helps students provide approval from universities abroad, the police said.
According to the police, the consultancy initially offered the student a package of ₹9.55 lakh for his admission process, including application, document verification, mock interview, visa assistance, support in finding accommodation for place of study, etc.
The police said over the course of a year from May 2018, he paid ₹12. 5 lakh in several instalments, including a partial amount to the personal bank account of one of the suspects. But the duo kept giving excuses when the victim asked them about his admission documents.
“They enrolled me in an institute in Bengaluru for learning German language and asked me to pay the pending instalment after I paid ₹4.98 lakh. When I told them that I would pay the rest amount after getting the admission letter, they threatened to stop the services and forfeit the paid amount. I was told I would get the letter in July, but I didn’t get any such letter even after several months passed. When I called them, they declined my calls or claimed to be busy,” the victim said in his complaint.
The police said in October last year, the victim had visited the consultancy on MG Road and was given assurances regarding his admission.
A police official privy to the investigation, requesting anonymity, said that the victim was told that no slots were available for his visa interview.
“In March 2019, the victim went to the visa office and found out that the consultancy had provided him fake documents. He has named two people in the complaint. We are conducting the investigation,” said the police official, adding that no arrests have been made in the case.
The police said that the victim had borrowed from a relative to pay a part of the amount he gave to the suspects.
The complaint was filed in the office of deputy commissioner of police (east) on September 27, and after preliminary probe, was marked to Sector 29 police station. Later, a case was registered under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code at Sector 29 police station on Monday, said the police.
