Promise of MBBS seat at JIPMER: Businessman cheated of Rs 43 lakh
Sattur: A 50-year-old businessman was cheated of Rs 43 lakhs by two fraudsters who promised him of getting his daughter an MBBS seat in the premier Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) Puducherry in 2019.
A case of cheating, forgery and criminal intimidation was registered by the Sattur Taluk police against the duo from Sivakasi and Chennai, based on a direction of judicial magistrate court.
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According to the police, the duo was introduced to the businessperson through a friend. One of the accused told the businessperson that he could get his daughter a medical seat through his contacts in JIPMER upon the payment of Rs 75 lakh. He also made a few people call the complainant to make his story believable, who claimed to have gotten a medical seat because of the accused.
After believing him, the businessperson gave the duo Rs 43 lakh in multiple installments for admission process, as per a recent media report in The Hindu.
The accused further took the business person and his daughter to JIPMER on the pretext of an interview once on January 20 last year. However, the fraudsters then claimed that the interview got cancelled and then gave them an admit card for another interview.
Eventually, the matter came to light after the complainant and his daughter enquired with officials in JIPMER and got to know that the admission had gotten over early, and the admit card and application form they received were fake.
When the businessperson asked for his money back from the fraudsters, the latter threatened him with dire consequences.
The Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported about a similar incident where a person from Jharkhand was arrested by the Goa Cyber Crime Cell for cheating a student of Rs 1o lakh on the pretext of offering admission to a reputed medical college in Karnataka's Bengaluru district.
