Three travel agents booked for duping woman of Rs.18   lakhs

Dilbag Singh 

Three travel agents booked for duping woman of Rs.18   lakhs

LOHIAN KHAS 18 JUNE 

The Lohian Khas police have booked three travel agents for allegedly duping a woman of Rs 18  lakhs on the pretext of sending her daughter abroad.

Station House Officer (SHO) Labh Singh said that the accused had been identified as Satwindar Singh and Gurpiar Singh, residents of Basti Mithu,  Jalandhar, and Jaitindar Singh, a resident of Raja Sansi village, Amritsar

Jasbeer Singh, a resident of Sidhu Pur village, complained to the Jalandhar (rural) senior superintendent of police that she had paid Rs 18 lakhs to the accused for facilitating her daughter’s migration abroad. However, neither was she sent abroad, nor did she get the money back.

SHO said a case under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC  and section 13 of the Punjab Travel Professional Regulation Act 2014 has been registered against the accused after an inquiry, and further investigation was in progress.