Fraudsters pose as representatives of NGO ,dupe several young girls with fake job promises in Anantnag District

Sameer Ahmad

Anantnag 04 ,July: Fraudsters posing as representatives of fake NGO’s duped several young girls in the south Kashmir’s area of Anantnag District with false job promises.

Fraudsters posing as representatives of an NGO, namely Babu Dham Trust, have allegedly duped girls from Anantnag District with fake job promises, a group of girls told Arising State.

Babu Dham Trust NGO representatives asked the girls to deposit Rs 10000 as deposit fee and assured them they would receive a salary of Rs 12000 every month from the NGO and that organisation would return  Rs 10000 deposit fee after two months, the girls said.

Added that after two months neither they received their salary nor have they returned their 10000 deposit fee.

”Numerous girls in Anantnag District have joined this NGO, and at the time of joining, we received no appointment letter other than an identity card, and we were allocated the assignment of distributing sanitary napkins to poor girls in villages after collecting Rs 100 from them,” said girls.

Another young female  while talking to Arising State said, “We approached several times to a District coordinator of NGO who had hired us . However, whenever we asked her about  salary and the refund of our deposit fee, every time the district coordinator gave us lame excuses. In addition, when we tried to contact the phone numbers of NGO’s higher ups, they were either switched off or unavailable, and they even did not have an office in Anantnag District,” she said.

We contacted officials of the Social Welfare department regarding the said NGO working in the district, but they had no information about it. We also tried contacting the website number of the said NGO, but a woman answered our call and said it was the wrong number.

However, upon contacting the District Coordinator of that NGO, she said that ,”in addition to being duped, she too had  deposited Rs 10000 as security deposit fee. The NGO neither returned my deposit security fee nor my salary to me.”

‘Initially, we were asked to register poor girls and give them sanitary napkins, then when we deposited the security fee of Rs 10000 they asked us to take Rs 100 from each poor girl as their registration fee, and they would get free medicines,’ she explained.

‘During that time, the NGO had dispensed  supplies for an entire month, and we had registered poor girls and distributed sanitary napkins to them. All the money we had taken from the girls had been credited to their official accounts,’ the coordinator said.

”In addition, after one and a half months, I asked them about the salary of employees, but they refused to release it, giving me false excuses,” coordinator stated.

‘In the end, they released salaries for a few employees after repeated calls to the NGO. In the meantime, another District cordinator was appointed, and I was removed from the NGO’s list, my phone number was blocked.”

Talking to the Arising state District Coordinator said that her husband also visited their head office in Dehli but there was no office in the name of the said NGO, when he called the officials of the NGO they said  that they had shifted to Lucknow due to COV- 19.

We have also filed a complaint with Kulgam police station and they have started an investigation, she added.

Arising state also tried to contact a few officials of the NGO ,but their phone numbers were either switched off or not available.