Pravasi Legal Cell

Pravasi Legal Cell has been receiving numerous complaints from people cheated by online job scammers. Recently we were approached by a young woman who was duped. She came across a highly attractive nursing job advertisement in the United Kingdom on the popular job portal N aukri. com and applied for the same, sending to the employer filled in forms and other documents.  She, on being “selected”, was asked to make a refundable deposit amounting to about 70000/-. Later, more money was demanded on different pretexts. Sensing danger, she declined any further payment and was informed that the application has been rejected as she could not make complete payment within the stipulated time. Her attempts to get the amount refunded or contact the “employers” failed. She approached Pravasi legal cell and with basic research we were able to know about the fraudsters. Since the payment was made into an Indian bank account we have initiated legal action to help her get the money ba...

An Indian Nurse troubled in Qatar due to the negligence of the HR officials of a private hospital in Delhi, gets relief after the intervention of Pravasi Legal Cell. Sunu Skaria was a former nurse of Max Super Speciality Hospital, Delhi. He later joined a new firm in Qatar and, along with other documents, submitted there an experience certificate issued by the Delhi Hospital as well. His troubles began when Dataflow, an international verification agency, contacted the hospital for verifying the genunity of his work experience certificate and the hospital officials erroneously reported that it was not issued by them. On receiving this report from the previous employer, the new office issued Sunu with a show cause notice. He immediately contacted the hospital management with proper documents, but the hospital refused to entertain his plea and to rectify the error. Forging of documents for employment is considered a serious crime and this can be a reason for lose of em...

The Delhi High Court has issued notices to Delhi University and the Government of India on a petition filed by the students of Delhi University pointing out the University’s arbitrary and irrational selection criteria for the undergraduate courses. The calculation of “best of four” marks based on which admission to various courses is done is restricted only to those subjects mentioned in the common prospectus of the University. Unfortunately, the list includes only Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali  and  Punjabi and excludes all the other Indian languages mentioned in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution of India. If any subject other than those mentioned in the said list is included in the calculation of “Best four marks” there is a deduction of 2.5 % in the aggregate score. This causes much discomfiture for those students who chose their regional language for the board exams as elective subjects and have scored high in the same. The illogical and arbitrary ex...