GUWAHATI: Guwahati Police arrested a man accused of defrauding multiple individuals by falsely promising them government jobs in Assam on Tuesday, March 11. The suspect, identified as 39-year-old Sahidul Islam, hailing from Goalpara’s Kalyanpur was a supervisor at an NGO named Siksha Mitra Tech Services, which was authorised solely to conduct awareness programmes on scholarships in government and provincialised secondary schools across the state.
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The case came to light following a complaint that Islam had taken large sums of money from several people, misleading them with false assurances of securing government employment.
Investigations revealed that the NGO, operating from Katahbari in Guwahati’s Gorchuk, was only permitted to facilitate scholarship awareness initiatives free of charge and had no authority to offer job placements.
Speaking to GPlus, an official from Dispur police station said, “ A man was arrested for allegedly duping people by falsely promising them Assam government jobs. He is a supervisor of an NGO, which is authorised to create awareness of scholarships in schools across the state. He is now in custody and we are investigating the matter.”
Further details are awaited.
