Two women among four travel agents booked for duping Nakodar woman   of Rs 22 Lakhs

Dilbag Singh

Two women among four travel agents booked for duping Nakodar woman   of Rs 22 Lakhs

NAKODAR 23 JULY 

The Nakodar city police have booked four travel agents, including two women, for allegedly duping a Nakodar woman of Rs.22 lakhs on the pretext of sending her son and daughter -in -law abroad.

Nakodar Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Onkar Singh Brar said that the accused have been identified as Amrik Singh, son of Tarsem Lal a resident of Lohara village; his sister Meenu Seema and Seema Ranni, wife of Surjit Singh a resident of the same village; and Manohar Lal, a resident of Dherian village.

DSP said that Kamlesh Ranni, wife of Parshan Masih a resident of Meera Pur village, complained to the Jalandhar (rural) senior superintendent of police that she paid Rs 22 lakhs to the accused for facilitating her children’s migration abroad, but the accused did not send her children abroad and did not return the money.

DSP said that a case under sections 318(4) (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property)

and 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the BNS and section 13 of the Punjab Travel Professional Regulation Act has been registered against the accused after an inquiry.