AHMEDABAD: The Satellite police has registered a case of criminal breach of trust and cheating against a senior executive of Chandigarh University in Ahmedabad, Ratan Tatare, for allegedly cheating students by not depositing their fees in the university.
A complaint was registered on Friday by Mohammed Bakarwala, 18, a resident of Vejalpur, at Satellite police station.
The complainant alleged that he wanted admission to the BE Computer Science course at Chandigarh University.
The complainant said he was told that the office of the university was in the Satellite area, near Jodhpur Crossroads.
He went to the office and met Tatare.
Tatare told him that he had to pay Rs 1.6 lakh as fees in total, and should pay Rs 80,000 as fees for the first semester.
The complainant alleged that he paid Rs 10,000 to confirm his admission and his online education course began.
Bakarwala claimed that he paid the remainder of the fees in installments and in January, when he went to get the receipt, Tatare was not there.
The staff present told him that his fees of Rs 70,000 had not been deposited and Tatare had cheated him and 13 other students and had not deposited Rs 13 lakh with the university.
Satellite police registered an offence under Indian Penal Code Section 406 (Criminal breach of trust) and 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property).