College students cheated promising job placements

Updated on: Thursday, January 12, 2012

A man and a woman were arrested for allegedly duping several engineering college students by posing as campus recruitment consultants and collecting lakhs of rupees from them.
 
According to police, the arrested, identified as Kothapalli Praveena and Seshu, had collected about Rs 12 lakh cash and over Rs 2 lakh by cheques from the students.
 
State CID arrested the duo at Rajahmundry in East Godavari district, for cheating students of nine engineering colleges and a pharmacy college.
 
The duo used to visit colleges and conduct placement consultancy programmes under the name of M/s March-End Consultancy recruitment firm. The duo collected Rs 500 as processing fee from each final year engineering student of B V C Engineering College, Odalarevu.
 
After conducting video-graphic interviews, they issued fake placement orders to 113 students (downloaded from net and e-copies) on behalf of reputed firms like IBM, Mphasis and Elcon, S V Ramana Murthy, additional Director General of Police (CID) said here.

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