Travel agent booked for duping villager of Rs.3.62 lakhs

Dilbag Singh

Travel agent booked for duping villager of Rs.3.62 lakhs

SHAHKOT 10 MAY 

The Shahkot police have booked a travel agent for allegedly duping a villager of Rs 3.62 lakhs on the pretext of sending him abroad. Shahkot Deputy Superintendent of police (DSP) Sarwann Singh said that the accused had been identified as Surjit Singh son of Jaswant Singh a resident of Saddu Wal village under Sultan Pur Lodhi police station in Kapurthala district.

Harphool Singh a resident of Raje Wal village had complained to Jalandhar (rural) senior superintendent of police that he had paid Rs3.62 lakhs to the accused for facilitating his migration to Austria. However, neither did he send him abroad nor did return the money.

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