Hyderabad police book principal for cheating 30 students

Hyderabad: The principal of Aryan College of Hotel Management was booked for cheating 30 of his students on Wednesday by Malakpet police. 

Police said the principal had promised to get the students jobs in the Maldives and collected Rs 4 lakh from each of them. 

Police said the principal, Narayana Reddy, promised students of his college that he would get them jobs abroad and took 30 of them on a visiting visa to Maldives and left them there. 

The students of Aryan College of Hotel Management at Dilsukhnagar staged a protest on Wednesday after they were duped. The students who were taken to Maldives shared a video of their problems there and requested the police to help them. 

In the video, Vamsi, a student who completed first year in the college, says, “It's been over a month we have come here. The visa, the offer letter, everything was fake. They cheated us after collecting our money.”

“We received complaints against the principal from the distressed parents of the students and booked a case against him,” said the sub inspector of Malakpet. 

Vamsi added in the video that they were confined to a room and their passports were taken away.

“The principal is not communicating with us and we are unable to reach our parents and request us to help us fly back to India,” said the boy. 

“Out of the 30, 11 students have been brought back to the city so far and attempts are in progress to get the rest of them back as soon as possible. The accused, Narayana Reddy, is absconding and we are working on intelligence reports about his whereabouts. However, we have brought in his wife to the station for questioning,” added the sub inspector.