SAD MLA’s ex-PA booked for fraud

Muktsar, February 28

The police have booked Manpreet Singh, a former personal assistant (PA) of local SAD MLA Kanwarjit Singh ‘Rozy Barkandi’, for an alleged immigration fraud of Rs 5.55 lakh.

The complainant, Gurjeet Singh, a resident of the Abohar road here, alleged to the police that Manpreet Singh had last year made him deposit Rs 2.55 lakh in his bank account and took Rs 3 lakh cash for sending him to Canada. “However, later, neither Manpreet attended my phone call, nor returned the money,” he alleged. — TNS