Expressbuzz, Feb 2, 2010
BALANGIR: Fly-by-night operators are a dime a dozen these days. In one such instance, a company, promising jobs, has duped around 200 job-seekers of western Orissa.
The cheating came to light when the youths, who had given money to the company head for jobs, reached the company office to know about their job status. The aggrieved youths then lodged a complaint with the town police station.
However, the head of the company Manoj Panda is absconding.
Sources said Panda opened a company - S K Enterprises - to facilitate job-seekers get jobs such as security guard, block coordinator, mobile tower maintenance operator and supervisor at towers. The company allegedly collected Rs 30,000 from each aspirant and gave them one month time to get jobs. When the aspirants didn’t get any call letters from the companies, they smelt fishy and approached Panda, who allegedly terrorised the aspirants.
Sapneswar Das, a youth, who had given money to the company, said he was promised supervisor job in a mobile tower. “After I gave the money, I took the consent letter. A month later when I came to the office and approached Panda, he was nonchalant and acted in a way as if I never gave him money,” said Das.
When the company published an advertisement in this regard, aspirants from five districts of western Orissa came to the office of the company and registered their names by giving money. There are around 43 persons of Kalahandi, Sonepur, Boudh and Balangir, who aspired to get jobs as security guards.
Sridhar Budek, a security guard aspirant, alleged that Panda was running a racket to cheat the job-seekers. He said the company had collected nearly Rs 50 lakh from unemployed youths.
Balangir SP Ajaya Sarangi said police would investigate the case and nab the culprit soon.
“We will first look into the complaints of the aspirants, who claim to have been cheated, and then take further action,” said the SP.
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