Man sent to jail for duping jobless youths

PATNA: One Alok Kumar Singh was on Friday forwarded to jail for allegedly duping unemployed youths in the name of giving them jobs in the Merchant Navy. He was arrested on Thursday.
City SP, Patna, Kim on Friday said that some of the duped youths met her and complained about the activities of Singh, who had opened his office on Boring Road under S K Puri police station.She said that Singh used to take Rs 3.50 lakh from each unemployed youths for training them and providing them jobs in the Merchant Navy without getting proper permission from the authorities concerned.
Kim said that Singh did not give the youths training, though he has set up a coaching class at his office. She said that he has also launched his website. Singh never gave any job to the youths, from whom he had taken money, the SP said and added that later he agreed to return the money that he had taken from the youths and was arrested.
Kim said that the local police have sealed Singh's office and recovered several forms and cheque books from there.