SNE NETWORK.LUDHIANA.
A gang of fake travel agents showed an offer letter of a government college in Canada Surrey to a student named Pradeep Singh of village Touse in Ludhiana and got him admitted in a private college in Brampton, 4347 kms away from there. The accused also withdrew Rs. 6 lakh 50 thousand from the student’s GIC account in a bank in Canada and then left him to his fate in Canada.
The accused even got the registry of the victim’s family mortgaged and started blackmailing them by getting them to sign blank cheques. The accused settled the deal for Rs. 14 lakh and extorted Rs. 24 lakh 30 thousand and started threatening to implicate them in cases through the registry of the house and cheque. The victim’s family gathered courage and complained to the police.
In-charge of police station Sudhar Jaswinder Singh said that on the complaint of Mandeep Kaur, a case has been registered against travel agent Hamir Singh and Sandeep Goyal resident Barnala under various sections of fraud and investigation has been started. He said that legal notices are being sent for the arrest of the accused and they will be arrested soon.
Mandeep Kaur told in her complaint that she had talked to Hamir Singh and his son Sam Singh through Nanak Singh, a resident of Rasulpur Jhandi. The contract was made in their office named Navi Immigration near Court Chowk, Barnala. Both father and son assured to send her son Pradeep to a government college in Surrey on a study visa for Rs 14 lakh, but later took Rs 24 lakh 30 thousand.
On 6 September 2023, Pradeep reached Surrey city of Canada. After going there, it was found that Pradeep has been admitted to a private college in Brampton, 4347 km away from Surrey. Sandeep Goyal supported the accused in all this mess and fraud. Through the signatures taken on the blank cheque, the accused also fraudulently withdrew Pradeep’s Rs 6 lakh 50 thousand kept in a Canadian bank account.
When she spoke to the accused, they started threatening and making excuses. According to Mandeep Kaur, she was forced to spend Rs 15 lakh again and get Pradeep admitted to a government college in Canada.