Fraud: Woman in Silchar takes money from hundreds after assuring job; Fir lodged at Silchar Sadar

Manipulating someone into giving money to someone in exchange for a job opportunity or any means of income is something that isn’t new to us. Such fraudulent cases of extracting money through dishonest and illicit means have taken a new height in Silchar where a woman allegedly succeeded in manipulating hundreds of people all across the Barak Valley into giving her money in exchange for a job in banks. And this fraudulent act was also successfully kept alive for 6 months, as the poor victims of this fraud had to stall their dream of getting a bank job.

According to the victims of this fraudulent act, the name of the alleged culprit is Payel Bhattacharjee, who is a resident of the Ghaniala area of Silchar. They alleged that she has taken ₹6,000 from each aspirant and promised them a job in a bank. But for the last 6 months or so, the aspirants were given various excuses from time to time and delayed their joining. After patiently waiting for 6 months to join the job that they were promised, pressure started to pile up on the woman from several parties, so she called up all of them today in an apartment in NN Dutta road of Silchar. When all the aspirants arrived at the scene, the situation became quite volatile and chaotic as the crowd gathered there exceeded more than 300. Not satisfied with her explanation for delaying their joining, and sensing something fishy about the whole deal, they started asking for the credibility of her claim which further raised suspicion about the whole deal.

“We were promised a job in a bank in exchange for 6,000 rupees. But for the last 6 months or so, the lady has been misleading us through various excuses like the lockdown or sometimes even claiming that only after full vaccination, they’ll be allowed to join. When we started questioning her more, she called all of us today in her office in NN Dutta road. All of us were earlier told that only 40 people would be eventually selected. But after arriving here, today we saw the crowd consisted of at least 300-400 people. Then, when the official document of the job joining which was undersigned by Payel Bhattacharjee had no office seal on it, it further raised more questions regarding the whole matter”, said one of the victims who also handed over ₹6,000 to Bhattacharjee in exchange of employment.

Dissatisfied with her assurance, the people then demanded to her that if she manages to give them their money back, they wouldn’t stretch the matter any further. But after arriving at the bank with Payel Bhattacharjee, they discovered to their astonishment that her bank account was almost empty, meaning she wasn’t in a position to pay back their money. The police were immediately contacted and an FIR was filed against her in the Silchar Police Station.

According to one of the victims, Payel Bhattacharjee lives with her mother at their residence in Ghaniala, Malugram area. Some of those victims even left their own job to join the one promised by Payel Bhattacharjee. Another victim said, “We were told that the job offer is under the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and for that purpose, we were made to sign a contract paper bearing the RBI label. We were even told that our training would start from September first week. Earlier, once a few of us went in search of her to the State Bank of India (SBI), but couldn’t find her. When we called her, she asked us to come down to this apartment in a building at the NN Dutta road. There, we went inside the apartment where the signboard read ‘Krypto Developers Private Ltd’ where we were asked to sign a contract paper, and then told us to visit Banga Bhawan on the 7th, 8th, and 9th of September.”

Silchar Sadar OC said that an FIR has been filed against Payel Bhattacharjee, and the investigation is still underway. The police have already taken the culprit under their custody.