TURA: Garo Hills based organizations from Mendipathar region have filed a police complaint against a resident of Salpara locality who took 65,000 rupees from each of his six victims with a promise of employment and later disappeared.
The accused Samuel Ch Marak, claiming himself to be an MBA degree holder, had lured six young newly passed out nursing school students with promise of a job in his so called Guwahati Financial Hospital.
He had issued them a fake appointment letter to join his non-existent hospital appointing them as ANM workers and each of the girls had to pay him a sum of Rs. 65,000 for the recruitment. Two of his lady victims were trained nurses at Dudhnoi and had successfully completed their nursing internship from Solace Hospital of Goalpara in Assam.
All six victims were asked to come to Guwahati where the accused Samuel had taken up a rented house. They paid him the money amounting to a total of Rs 3.90 lakh.
However, when the six went to take up their new appointments they were in for a rude shock. They neither found the institute nor Samuel. Attempts to reach him by phone turned futile as he had switched off his cell. When the victims went to his rented house they found it locked from the outside.
On their return they went to Samuel’s house and reported the matter to his father D. Daniel who instead threatened them with a police case.
The father of the accused has been running a clinic at his home in Salpara claiming to be a medical doctor who had served in the army medical service.
The NGOs of the region have also met the deputy commissioner of North Garo Hills and apprised him of the situation. They are demanding a probe into the antecedents of both Samuel and his father Daniel since one is claiming to be an MBA holder while another says he is a doctor.
Both father and son had taken up residence at Salpara just two years ago.
Deputy Commissioner S.C. Sadhu has since issued instructions to the police to begin an inquiry into the issue.
