Couple arrested for cheating 113 B.Ed, M.Ed aspirants

A young couple, who allegedly cheated over 100 B.Ed and M.Ed aspirants of more than Rs 65 lakh, were arrested in the national capital, police said on Sunday.

Rochak Sharma, 28, and his wife Jasmine Sharma, 27, who were putting up in a rented Kothi in the posh locality of Delta-1 in Greater Noida, were arrested.

Both were absconding and a non-bailable warrant was issued against them by the Delhi High Court, a senior police official said.

The Crime Branch was investigating a case against them in which 113 students were cheated of around Rs 65 lakh on the pretext of giving them degrees of B.Ed and M.Ed from Jammu and Kashmir and Kurkshetra Universities.

The arrest came on a complaint filed by one Simmi Trehan, a resident of Sector 9 of Rohini that Rochak, the director of Dolphin Collge in Vikaspuri, collected money from several students who applied for B.Ed and M.Ed and but later closed down the office.

Later, police said, the couple started a new institution Sharma College of Education in Janakpuri and again allegedly cheated many other aspirants. Again, they shut the institute without paying the money back.

Rochak was arrested earlier too but his wife Jasmine managed to get interim bail from the court. The court later granted bail to both husband and wife when they assured that they would settle the issue with the victims. However, instead of settling the issue, they jumped interim bail and absconded.


- Indian Journalist.