According to a national daily, a group has defrauded several senior professors from public sector universities by promising them positions as vice chancellors.
Sources reveal that the group’s operatives had rented a room at the Executive Club of Punjab University, presenting themselves as members of a security agency. They informed the professors that they were compiling reports on candidates for the vice chancellor positions.
Several professors reportedly engaged with the group, paying substantial sums to obtain favorable reports. After collecting the money, the group vanished. The Punjab University administration has filed an FIR against the group at the Muslim Town police station.
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The police have arrested a group member and initiated an investigation into the scam, in which several professors were defrauded of millions. The group posed as investigation officers at Punjab University, where they allegedly received assistance from a VC candidate.
Interviews for VC positions at 25 public sector universities are ongoing, with two phases completed.
In the first phase, interviews were held for engineering universities, followed by those for general public sector universities. The third phase, focusing on women’s universities, starts this week. Intelligence and security agencies have also submitted reports on the candidates.