Bokaro coaching institute official held for cheating

BOKARO: Police on Monday arrested the divisional manager of Everonn Toppers, a coaching institute, for cheating more than 200 IIT aspirants and lodged a case against him and another senior official of the institute.
The victims are the students of Classes XI and XII from different schools in town. Of them, there are many who have come to Bokaro from other districts and states to prepare for IIT-JEE exams.Suspecting that divisional manager Chetan Mahajan, a resident of Gurgaon, will flee, the parents and students caught him and handed over him to police. Based on the complaints of 200 students, police lodged an FIR under various sections of IPC against Mahajan. "Managing director of the institute Rakesh Kumar Sharma and Mahajan have been made accused in the case," said SP Kuldeep Dwivedi.
This is the third such incident in which coaching institutes officials fled after cheating the students. In the past one year, several FIRs were lodged against coaching institutes like Kiran Counseling, Times Education and Brilliant Tutorial. Everonn Toppers is situated in City Centre opposite Jai Jawan Petrol Pump in Sector-IV.
"Hundreds of students with their parents have alleged that the institute owner and Mahajan have cheated them by taking huge money as fees and not providing them the coaching. The students are agitated and are asking police to get their money or send him to jail," said Dwivedi. Diptimaan Saurabh, a student of Class XI of Delhi Public School, said he had paid Rs 54,820 as fees to the institute for the IIT-JEE coaching. Initially the things went right, but two months later the institute stopped giving them study materials and classes were held properly as many faculty members stopped coming.
"I have taken admission in July and from September our classes discontinued. Our complaints to the authorities had fallen on deaf ears. We have demanded our money back but they are not providing it which forced us to lodge FIR," said Saurabh, he belongs to Gaya and residing here for studies.
Ravi Ranjan, Divakar Kumar Singh, Saurabh Tiwari, Ravinder Jaipuriar, Divyank Kumar echoed him. "We want our money back. Mahajan and the owner of the institute have played with our future, we are not going to forgive them."
Ranjan said that the institute has charged about Rs 40,000 to Rs 60,000 from each student as fees. It is a scam of crores of rupees. There are more than 500 students enrolled in the institute as it runs 18 batches containing 40-45 students in each batch.
Mahajan said the allegations against him were baseless.