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Chandigarh | Immigration firm owner held for duping man of ₹2.9L on pretext of sending him to Canada
The owner of the Chandigarh-based immigration firm was arrested, while police also recovered passport printers, hard drives, computers and CCTV footage from his Sector 22 office
The owner of a Sector 22-based immigration firm has been arrested for duping a Pathankot resident of ₹2.94 lakh.
Police said the accused, identified as Kuldeep Singh Gill of Dashmesh Nagar, Kharar, had been running a network for the past few months and had cheated others as well.
The complainant, Kumar Darpan, 34, of Pathankot alleged that he had approached the accused and others including manager Harman and Parneet Kaur in June 2021 to acquire a work permit for Canada. He had given them his visa and ₹30,000 at the time, later paying another ₹ 2.64 lakh.
The accused provided a job offer document for a company based in Rue de Beauharnois, Montreal, which the complainant suspected was fake. The firm was unable to send him abroad and did not return his money, following which he approached the police.
Police raided the firm Quicknoxx Solution Private Limited in Sector 22 C on Thursday, recovering a number of passport printers, hard drives, computers and CCTV footage from the office.
The accused was arrested and a case under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and Punjab Travel Professional (Regulation) Act has been registered at the Sector 17 police station.
Police say at least 25 similar complaints have been found and they suspect that more victims will come forward against him.
Officials privy to the matter said, “The accused had been advertising his business over social media to target people all over Punjab and Haryana and he had also formed a whole customer care network to appear genuine. It is expected that he cheated over 25 people of an amount over one crore.”
“We are investigating how he was printing such offer letters and what he was doing with the passports. He was active for the past few months and it is likely we will register more cases against the accused. His two employees who are also named in the complaint are currently on the run,” the official added.
