Mortgaged jewellery, house to raise money

Family members of a US deportee here sought strict action against the immigration agent, who had sent their son to the US through the “dunki route”.

Gurmeet Singh, a resident of Talania village, is one of the 119 people sent back to India by the US on Saturday.

Talking to The Tribune, Gurmeet’s father Chunni Lal said his son had left for the US on November 12 last year, for which the immigration agent charged them Rs 40 lakh, which they had borrowed from their relatives and moneylenders by mortgaging jewellery and their house.

Chunni Lal said he had left Gurmeet in New Delhi and did not know through which route the travel agent took his son to the US before his arrest by the authorities there.