Travel agent couple booked for duping Shahkot woman of Rs 42 Lakhs

Dilbag Singh 

Travel agent couple booked for duping Shahkot woman of Rs 42 Lakhs

SHAHKOT 1 APRIL 

The Shahkot police have booked a travel agent couple for allegedly duping a Shahkot woman resident of Rs.42 lakhs on the pretext of migrating her son and daughter to Canada

Shahkot Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Sukhpal  Singh said that the accused have been identified as Sewa Singh a resident of Sadik Pur village and his wife Palwindar Kaur .

DSP said that Kamlesh Ranni   a resident of Malsian village under Shahkot police station    complained to Jalandhar(rural) senior superintendent of police (SSP) that she paid Rs 42 lakhs to the accused for facilitating her son and daughter’s migration from Greece to Canada, but the accused did not send her children to Canada nor returned the money.

DSP said that a case under sections 406 (breach of trust), 420 (cheating), and 34 (committing crime with common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 13 of the Travel Professional Regulation Act has been registered against the accused after an inquiry.