With the arrest of two more accused, all the agents of the international immigration racket involved in two cheating cases are in the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) Police’s net.
The accused have been identified as Prateek Shah and Bhav Singh Bhai, who were involved in duping people on the pretext of sending them to foreign shores. Laptops, forged stamps of various embassies, dyes used in making forged visas, colour paper roll used in making visa stickers, visa papers and other materials have been recovered at the instance of the accused.
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Deputy Commissioner of Police (IGI Airport), Ravi Kumar Singh said that three suspicious looking passengers, namely Sucha Singh, Surjit Singh and Amardeep Singh, who were supposed to travel to Paris by Vistara Airlines, were offloaded from their flight for checking based on behaviour detection on March 16, this year.
The French visas affixed on the passports appeared doubtful. The matter was referred by the Airlines to the German Embassy, where all three visas were scrutinised and declared as fake and counterfeit.
Subsequently a case under relevant sections was registered and the investigation was taken up.
Similarly, on March 24, one passenger, namely Sushil Kumar, who was supposed to travel to Paris by Air India flight, was found suspicious at the check-in area. During inquiry, the visa affixed on the passport appeared doubtful and later, declared fake and counterfeit by the German Embassy.
Another case
During interrogation, the accused passengers disclosed that they came in contact with agents, namely Gurvinder Singh Mokha resident of Uttam Nagar, Delhi and Sandeep Kumar resident of Ropar, Punjab through common friends. The agents assured of providing a fake Visa from France and the deal was finalized for Rs 36 lakhs for accused Sucha, Surjit and Amardeep. Similarly, Sushil was promised of providing the same Visa for Rs. 12 lakhs.
In a crackdown on large-scale scams running worldwide and duping people, a team consisting of Inspector Sumit Kumar, Assistant Sub-Inspector Om Prakash, Head-Constable Vinit, Vinod, and Constable Nitin under the leadership of Station House Officer (SHO), IGIA Inspector Yashpal Singh was constituted.
During investigation, all the agents involved in the present case namely Gaurav Gossain, Gurinder Singh Mokha, and Sandeep Kumar were arrested.
At the instance of the arrested accused a search for the absconding accused Bhav Singh Bhai and Prateek Shah was initiated and they were arrested from their hideouts.
