Unknown person booked for posing as University board members and cheating reputed college students on pretext of helping them get placement and internship

Dr.Thomas (Sub-Editor)

Registrar of St Joseph University has filed a complaint with the Ashoknagar police that some unidentified person posing as university board members cheating students on the pretext of helping them placement and internship.

Based on the complaint by Melwin Oliver Colaso,the police have registered a case of cheating and also under IT Act against unknown person on Wednesday for further investigation.

According to the complaint,the accused posing as university board members created a whatsapp group in the name of university and contacted final year students offering placement and internship.

The accused had charged ₹ 1,000 towards fee from each student .

When the management came to know about this tried to contact the accused but the accused started to threat the senior faculty members and the board members including the VC and director .

The accused were also making baseless allegations against the faculty members and tarnishing the reputation of the university , the complainant, said .