Investing Crs in Tipaimukh Dam with a difference Fraud caught duping gullible people

IMPHAL, Sep 23(TSE) : Though there is uncertainty on whe-ther the controversial Ti- paimukh Dam project would take off or not, a man is found to have duped as many as 117 aspiring candidates from across the four valley districts of the State and collected crores of rupees from them on false promise of  providing jobs in the National Hydro Electric Power Corporation (NHPC) in connection with the construction of Tipaimukh Dam.
The man has been identified as Moirangthem Pishak s/o late Iboton of Moirang Khunou but staying at his wife's place at Uripok Polem Leikai.
Talking to mediapersons at Manipur Press Club here today, some of the aspiring candidates who have been cheated cautioned the public against frauds like Pi- shak.
They informed that Pi-shak collected the money on the assurance of recruiting them to various posts like personal officer, LDC, account officer, store in-charge, cashier, convenor, assistant officer, clerk, accountant, computer atten- dant, welder, attendant and mechanic in National Hydro Electric Power Corpo- ration (NHPC) in connection with the construction of Tipaimukh dam.
Pishak also showed them fake documents of NHPC related to the alleged recruitment of these posts to convince them to part with their hard earned mo-ney.     
For the post of assistant officer, Pishak had taken anywhere between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2.10 lakh, Rs 3.7 lakhs  for the post of account officer, Rs 50,000 for the post of computer attendant, Rs 1 lakh for PRO, Rs 1.4 lakh for Peon and Rs 1.5 lakh for driver, etc. After having collected the amount, Pishak told the aspiring candidates to go for interview at Dispur Secretariat office at Guwahati on August 24. When the candidates reached there, much to their horror, they learnt that there was no interview or any recruitment process. The candidates also confirmed from the NHPC officials that the documents provided to them by Pishak were faked. Half an hour before the supposed interview, Pishak  also reportedly telephoned to the candidates informing that the interview has been postponed.