Published: Monday December 23, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Monday December 23, 2013 MYT 7:25:40 AM
Grads trafficked as labourers
BY NG SI HOOI, P.ARUNA, AND A.RAMAN
CHENNAI police have busted a human trafficking ring that sends youngsters, including engineers, to Malaysia for construction work after promising them high-paying jobs, reported Tamil Nesan
Two men, from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, were arrested and three engineering graduates rescued on Thursday after a “recruit” flew back from Malaysia and returned to Chennai where he made a police report,
Following the complaint lodged by software engineer Chandra Baskardas from Bihar, police raided a lodge in Wall Tax Road, and found five suspects in a room.
Investigations revealed that two of them, Yogesh Kumar, 30, from Uttar Pradesh and Deepak Kumar, 28, from Bihar, were part of the racket; while the rest were engineers and diploma holders who had applied for “jobs” online.
In his complaint, Baskardas said he had applied for several jobs online and was excited by an offer promising an engineer’s job in Malaysia for a monthly salary of Rs1lakh (RM5,300)
He was asked to pay Rs2 lakh (RM10,600) as “processing” fee. He was then told to go to to Chennai with all his certificates.
Baskardas and three of his friends, also from Bihar, came with the money and were flown to Malaysia where they realised they had been tricked. The “jobs” turned out to be menial work at a construction site.
Chennai police are now investigating if the gang had sent many other graduates to Malaysia to work as labourers.
> Pune police in North India had arrested a 50-year-old schoolteacher from Bhigwan, around 100km from Pune, for allegedly sending an eight-page love letter to a 15-year-old girl from his school.
He had also put Rs5,000 (RM265) in the envelope asking her to buy gifts, reported Makkal Osai.
The girl approached the school principal and showed him the letter and the cash.
The girl’s father lodged a complaint with the police on Dec 5 and the school authorities have suspended the teacher.
