2 Kapurthala agents booked following US deportee’s complaint

An FIR has been registered against two travel agents of Kapurthala on a complaint by a US deportee.

The Dhilwan police registered the case on the complaint by Nishan Singh, 20, of Chakoki village in Dhilwan.

It is the second such FIR registered by the Kapurthala police on the deportees’ complaints. In all, four agents have been booked.

The police booked Sukhjinder Singh Soni of Lakhan Ka Padde village and Lakkhi of Kishan Singh Wala village, both in Kapurthala district, under the BNS.

In a complaint to the SSP, Nishan alleged that he had been sent to the US illegally by the duo. While Nishan had been promised to be taken to the US directly, he was instead dropped in the jungles of Mexico.

Nishan said he wandered in the forests for 16 days.

Nishan alleged that the two agents asked his family for Rs 35 lakh to send him to America. His family gave them Rs 22 lakh in cash and deposited Rs 13 lakh in their bank accounts. The agents assured the family of sending Nishan to the US directly via flight. But they took him to Suriname, from where he walked to Mexico on foot. He crossed the wall of Mexico and entered America, where the US law enforcement agencies arrested him, he cclaimed,

He said the agents again charged the family Rs 10 lakh to get him across the wall of Mexico; therefore, duping them of Rs 45 lakh.

Dhilwan police station SHO Manjit Singh said the agents were booked on Wednesday and they had not been arrested so far.