NGO charged of cheating

Updated on: Friday, April 06, 2012

Four research students from a University in the Netherlands have charged a Puducherry-based NGO with trying to cheat them of money and said they did not feel safe at its premises.
 
The students from the University of Zuyd, in their complaint to police, alleged the NGO at Thirubhuvanai in Kumbakonam had asked them to pay twice the amount of 800 Euros required for their stay and threatened to keep them confined in a house and not provide them food and water if they did not pay up.
   
A functionary of the NGO had also behaved with them in an an 'unprofessional manner,' the students alleged.
  
The students have been here since February under a graduation project (internship), part of their curriculum to study the cultural features of India and wanted to do the project in association with the NGO.
 
Senior Superintendent of Police B.Srikanth told reporters that the complaint is being looked into and the students have been put up in the police guest house.

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