Facing criminal cases, man tries to enter US thrice

Despite facing three criminal cases, desperation of Gurwinder Singh, a resident of Sasrali village in Ludhiana, did not stop him from trying again and again to enter the US.

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He got his fake passport issued on a Lucknow address and tried his luck thrice to enter the US from different countries. However, he became unsuccessful and caught by the US authorities. After returning to India, the Ludhiana police arrested the deportee recently.

Following which, his wife Hardeep Kaur got registered a case against five travel agents, identified as Sasrali village resident and former sarpanch Charanjit Singh, UP lawyer Nishant Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Ravinder Deol and Satnam Singh.

Gurwinder’s wife Hardeep stated that in January 2023, Charanjit, former village sarpanch, took her husband to Lucknow where Nishant took Rs 1.25 lakh and made a fake passport of the man on a Lucknow address.

In all, he gave Rs 69.40 lakh, including Rs 1.25 lakh given to Nishant, to the five agents to reach the US.

“Nishant and Charanjit in December 2023 sent her husband to Nairobi, Kenya, on a tourist visa and promised to send him from there to America via Suriname, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico but about 10 days after staying in Nairobi, Gurwinder returned to Mumbai, instead of going to America,” Hardeep Kaur said.

She said in March 2024, the agents sent Gurwinder to Thailand and said he would be sent from Thailand to America via Dubai. After reaching Dubai, he was sent to Mexico on a tourist visa. But instead of sending her husband by flight, they made him cross the border of Belarus through ‘dunki’ route, where the army caught him and put him in a Russian jail and after spending a few days in jail, Gurwinder came to Dubai,” Hardeep said.

“On October 26, 2024, the agents sent Gurwinder to Gohana (South America) from Delhi but instead of sending my husband directly to America by flight they sent him to Brazil by taxi from Gohana where Gurwinder stayed for one month. From Brazil, through donkers my husband was transported to jungles of Panama through two different countries and after crossing the jungle in four days, he was transported to Guatemala in about 20 days through two boats, buses and canters and then transported in a pick-up van and container to Mexico City. The suspects finally sent her husband to Tijuana by flight from Mexico City and made him to illegally cross the US border on January 25. The US army arrested my husband and took him to a California camp and after keeping him there for 20 days, he was deported to the Amritsar airport on February 13,” she said.