Day after youth’s death in Cambodia, agent booked

A day after 24-year-old Randeep Singh of Sheikhpur Kalan here died in Cambodia, the police booked immigration agent Bikram Singh of Babiyal village near Ambala Cantonment yesterday.

The deceased’s elder brother, Ravi stated that Randeep had studied till Class VIII. Bikram, a relative of the deceased family, had promised them to send the youth to Canada and they paid him Rs 25 lakh.

The family said they talked to their son three days back. He was pleading to them to help him return to India. They had been sending money to Randeep for the past sometime. A sum of Rs 20,000 was sent to him a few days ago. His father is a daily wage earner and mother a MNREGA worker. The brother works part-time jobs and sister (27) is unmarried. The family was supposed to pay a total of Rs 45 lakh to the agent. The youth’s father, Balwinder Singh has appealed to the government to help them bring the mortal remains of his son to India.

Randeep reportedly died in Cambodia while on his way to illegally enter the US. He left India on June 1 last year. He spent around three months in Vietnam where he caught infection and allegedly died for the want of medical attention.