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Youth cry foul as interview turns awry

MANGALORE: A job interview held in the city on Saturday took an unpleasant turn when the aspirants raised an alarm, suspecting that the entire exercise was a farce.

Hundreds of unemployed youth had showed up, in response to a newspaper advertisement here that promised Rs. 8,000 and Rs. 11,000 a month salary for those who had passed SSLC and proficient in Kannada.

However, enraged by some tactics, allegedly adopted by the interviewers, and non-transparency in the interview process, the aspirants went berserk.

Shailesh Kumar, an applicant, told The Hindu, that the trouble started when a few youths sought justification from the interviewers for collecting Rs. 100 as “application fees”.

They had claimed that they were in the process of furnishing an office space at Hotel Prestige in Balmatta, he said while his friend revealed that no company was setting up a shop in the hotel building.

Nataraj (24), applicant, said that the receipts being issued by the company were outdated. “The receipt was for January 1, 2006,” he said and added that he was asked some “irrelevant questions”.

When the company officials refused to divulge the nature of the job in question, the suspicious aspirants disrupted the proceedings and alerted a regional television news channel. People from the television channel immediately arrived at the spot with cameras. Officers from the Kadri Police Station also arrived on hearing the news of “alleged cheating”.

After calming the situation down the police officers whisked the company’s executives away for interrogation. However, the police found that there was no foul play in the interview process.

Sub-Inspector Balachandra Gowda said: “The youngsters got carried away and came up with far fetched theories.” He revealed that the company had a valid licence based out of Bangalore and marketing a tummy trimming machine.

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