4 travel agents booked for duping two of Rs19.68 lakh

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, September 26

The Mahilpur police have booked four travel agents on the charges of cheating two persons of Rs 19.68 lakh on the pretext of sending them abroad.

In his complaint to the SSP Hoshiarpur, Vinod Kumar, a resident of Nangal Kalan village, alleged that travel agent Babu Khan of Bhadore village in Barnala district had taken Rs 17.48 lakh from him promising to send him to Canada. When agent did not send him to Canada, Vinod asked him to return the money, but he refused, the police said.

In another case, Sukhdish Singh, a resident of Saila Khurd, complaint to the SSP that Dinesh Kumar of Chankoya (Balachaur), Harpreet Singh and Harjinder Singh (Ludhiana) took Rs 2.20 lakh from him on the pretext of sending him to Singapore. But they neither sent him abroad nor returned the money.

After investigation of the cases, the Mahilpur police have booked the travel agents under Sections 420 of the Indian Penal Code and 13 of the Punjab prevention of Human Trafficking Act.