LUDHIANA: A staff of management and police officers raided five immigration consultancy offices here on Friday. As many as 56 passports and a visa replica, which was suspected to be faux, had been recovered.
The staff swooped down on four extra offices, however their group of workers had fled.
Out of the five firms, three had the permission to offer consultancy services, however none had the licence of Protector General of Emigrants to work as a recruiting company.
Five instances were registered at different police stations.
An FIR has been lodged against Nitish Ghai, Sonu Sood and Preety of Blessing Consultancy, Samrala Chowk; Ashu Thapar of A to Z Consultancy, additionally at Samrala Chowk; Tajinder Singh of GGI Consultancy, Millar Gunj; and Ravinder Kumar, Jasmine Kaur and Nitish Ghai of 99 Visa Overseas and Brightway Consultancy at Ghumar Mandi. They had been booked underneath sections 420 (cheating), 120-B (punishment for prison conspiracy) of the IPC and the Immigration Act.
All five firms claimed to be recruiting agencies for jobs abroad and issued advertisements. GGI, Blessing Consultancy and Brightway Consultancy, on the other hand, only had licence to offer immigration consultancy services. The remaining two had no licence.
Additional deputy commissioner of police (particular department) Surendra Lamba mentioned, “The raids had been carried out on the agencies against whom the police had gained proceedings. After advisory of the CM, teams had been formed comprising SDMs, ADCPs, ACPs and SHOs of seven police stations.”
Starting with form filling, the accused used to take Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,000 from applicants. Thereafter they took Rs 3,500 for clinical examination, followed via Rs 35,000 as processing charge. “Then they confirmed them faux visa on cell phone and took Rs 1.five lakh to get final visa. But they by no means despatched anyone abroad. Besides, they might take passports of applicants of their custody,” Lamba added.
The accused had additionally made plans to escape criminal action. “They used to send emails from faux IDs of respective embassies, saying the payment made was non-refundable. They additionally were given an affidavit signed via the applicants, mentioning that the corporate was not a recruiting company. If any complainant ever proceeded with criminal action, the accused used affidavits to save lots of themselves,” he mentioned.
A case has additionally been registered against the owner of Chaudhary clinical, here, a laboratory the place Blessing Consultancy were given clinical examination of its applicants carried out, mentioned police officers.
The accused had been energetic for the previous five years. Lamba mentioned the police would check the visa recovered from GGI Consultancy, as it gave the look to be a fake document.
The native management swung into action after an advisory was issued via leader minister Captain Amarinder Singh on unauthorized shuttle and immigration agents.
The staff was constituted via commissioner of police Sukhchain Singh Gill and deputy commissioner Pradeep Agarwal.
The staff swooped down on four extra offices, however their group of workers had fled.
Out of the five firms, three had the permission to offer consultancy services, however none had the licence of Protector General of Emigrants to work as a recruiting company.
Five instances were registered at different police stations.
An FIR has been lodged against Nitish Ghai, Sonu Sood and Preety of Blessing Consultancy, Samrala Chowk; Ashu Thapar of A to Z Consultancy, additionally at Samrala Chowk; Tajinder Singh of GGI Consultancy, Millar Gunj; and Ravinder Kumar, Jasmine Kaur and Nitish Ghai of 99 Visa Overseas and Brightway Consultancy at Ghumar Mandi. They had been booked underneath sections 420 (cheating), 120-B (punishment for prison conspiracy) of the IPC and the Immigration Act.
All five firms claimed to be recruiting agencies for jobs abroad and issued advertisements. GGI, Blessing Consultancy and Brightway Consultancy, on the other hand, only had licence to offer immigration consultancy services. The remaining two had no licence.
Additional deputy commissioner of police (particular department) Surendra Lamba mentioned, “The raids had been carried out on the agencies against whom the police had gained proceedings. After advisory of the CM, teams had been formed comprising SDMs, ADCPs, ACPs and SHOs of seven police stations.”
Starting with form filling, the accused used to take Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,000 from applicants. Thereafter they took Rs 3,500 for clinical examination, followed via Rs 35,000 as processing charge. “Then they confirmed them faux visa on cell phone and took Rs 1.five lakh to get final visa. But they by no means despatched anyone abroad. Besides, they might take passports of applicants of their custody,” Lamba added.
The accused had additionally made plans to escape criminal action. “They used to send emails from faux IDs of respective embassies, saying the payment made was non-refundable. They additionally were given an affidavit signed via the applicants, mentioning that the corporate was not a recruiting company. If any complainant ever proceeded with criminal action, the accused used affidavits to save lots of themselves,” he mentioned.
A case has additionally been registered against the owner of Chaudhary clinical, here, a laboratory the place Blessing Consultancy were given clinical examination of its applicants carried out, mentioned police officers.
The accused had been energetic for the previous five years. Lamba mentioned the police would check the visa recovered from GGI Consultancy, as it gave the look to be a fake document.
The native management swung into action after an advisory was issued via leader minister Captain Amarinder Singh on unauthorized shuttle and immigration agents.
The staff was constituted via commissioner of police Sukhchain Singh Gill and deputy commissioner Pradeep Agarwal.
Immigration firms raided, none had proper papers
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