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Foreign dreams turn sour
Duped by agents
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Marital Disputes
Crime Zone
SMO held for misbehaving with woman health worker
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Foreign dreams turn sour
Jalandhar, July 2 President of Lok Bhalai Party, Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, lodged a complaint with the district police in this regard. Parvesh Kumar, alias Mintu, the Jalandhar-based travel agent not only duped the girls in the name of providing them with jobs, but has been blackmailing their family to provide an extra amount of Rs 2 lakh if they wanted their daughters back home safely. The duo had paid Rs 1 lakh to the agent for reaching Singapore. Amandeep Kaur (24), a resident of Tarn Taran, left for Singapore on June 16. The girl was promised a job on a monthly salary of Rs 35,000. However, on reaching Singapore, the girl was not given any job, instead asked to take to the flesh trade and beaten up. Another girl, Suman, from Kaki Pind in Rama Mandi, Jalandhar, also left for Singapore along with Amandeep. The girls reached Singapore on June 19. Davinder Kaur, the mother of Amandeep Kaur, appealed before the media for the early rescue of her daughter. “I received calls from my daughter who informed me that the travel agent is beating her and forcing her to take to prostitution. Now the agent is demanding another Rs 2 lakh as an amount to release her from Singapore”, she added. She also said though her family managed to arrange Rs 50,000 for the release of her daughter, but to no avail. “Parvesh sent me his account number through SMS and asked me to deposit the money in his account at the earliest. I am virtually helpless as I mortgaged everything to send my daughter abroad,” she rued. Earlier, Suman worked with a dance troupe at the local eating joint Haveli, situated on the Jalandhar-Phagwara National Highway. It was here that she got in touch with the travel agent and was lured on the pretext of a two-year work permit at Singapore. Lambasting the consecutive state governments for their failure to control rampant human trafficking, Ramoowalia said an approximate 8,000 girls have landed in the flesh trade in the past eight years. “It is a pity that despite raising such matters in the media from time to time, the government refuses to wake up from its slumber”, he added.
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Duped by agents
Jalandhar, July 2 Rama Mandi resident Jasvir Singh has alleged that he was duped of Rs 5.50 lakh by Chandigarh-based agents - Indian Immigration Services, Sector 34-A - on the promise that he would be sent to a European country of his choice. Run by Aman Sandhu, Ram Bilas and Sonia, the firm regularly advertised in the media their expertise in sending people abroad, he said. Since he opted for France, he was told to arrange Rs 1.50 lakh since he would be sent there from Thailand. “I boarded a flight on April 22 and landed in Bangkok where an agent received me and put me up in a hotel. I stayed there for over a month and was assured by Sandhu that the visa application was being processed,” he added. In the meantime, the agents contacted my in-laws and told them that they had not been able to arrange a visa for France but they had secured one for Spain. They showed a copy of the visa and asked for Rs 2.50 lakh which was given to them, he said. “Following this, I was asked to fly to Singapore where my visa was awaiting. I flew from there to Spain but was stopped by the immigration authorities at Doha where I was told that my visa was a forgery,” he revealed. “Harassed by the turn of events, I came back to India on May 29 and contacted the agents who told me to give my passport back to one Subash in Karol Bagh. I was told that they could send me to Spain via Kathmandu if I could arrange Rs 4.50 lakh,” he said. “I told them I could not do so since the earlier money too had been arranged after selling my taxi and whatever else I owned. I asked them to return my passport (F 4664937) but they refused to do so,” he added. Jasvir said he had lodged his complaint with the authorities at Chandigarh and Jalandhar. The Anti-Fraud Staff here had summoned the agents for questioning on July 6, he informed. |
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Tribune Impact
Jalandhar, July 2 DC Priyank Bharti said he had ascertained the facts that the contractor who had been authorised for parking within the complex had also been illegally running a parking lot outside the complex on the road leading to Master Tara Singh Nagar. The DC said he had even checked up with the Municipal Corporation authorities which too confirmed that the parking was illegal. In fact, the contractor had even put up a board reading “Nagar Nigam parking theke te (meaning parking on contract by Municipal Corporation). The board did not even mention the rates, further flouting norms. This morning, when this correspondent took a round of the area, the contractor’s men were still busy collecting charges from those using the roadside parking. The revelation came after a city-based RTI activist Rajinder Bhatia had asked for information regarding authorised parking lots in the city. The MC officials had replied that 11 parking lots had been auctioned but for the last financial year. Assistant Commissioner D.P. Bhardwaj had confirmed that no auction could be conducted successfully this year. RTI activist Bhatia said at least 1,000 cars were parked during the entire day and the man had been minting lakhs of rupees right under the nose of the administration and judiciary.
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Marital Disputes
Phillaur, July 2 In the first incident, a Sukhwinder Kaur (24), mother of two daughters, was found murdered on her bed in her parents’ house in nearby Kang Jagir village on Friday morning. Police said the deceased woman had a dispute with her husband Santokh Ram of Chack Saboo village and had been residing with her parents, along with her younger daughter, for the last two months. The Tribune has learnt that, Charan Kaur, mother of the deceased, along with her grand daughter had gone to meet her younger daughter to Dosanjh
Kalan village yesterday. Sukhwinder, who was sleeping on a bed in the open area of the house while they were away, was found murdered. Some village women saw her body today with injuries inflicted by sharp-edged weapons. It is learnt that unknown killers first strangled her then killed her with sharp-edged weapons. The Phillaur Police has registered a case under section 302 of the IPC against unknown killers. In the second incident, Mandeep Kaur was found murdered in the Ramgarhia Mohalla yesterday. It was learnt that the deceased was found strangulated at her in-laws’ house, but her in-laws tried to pass it off as suicide. The parents of the deceased, however, alleged that their daughter was murdered by her-in-laws. Police has registered a case under section 302 of the IPC against Mandeep’s husband Rajwinder Singh, mother-in-law Kuldip Kaur, father-in-law Santokh Singh and sister-in-law Paramjit Kaur on the charges of murder. No arrest has been made so far. |
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Crime Zone
Hoshiarpur: The police booked Assistant Manager of Punjab Agriculture Development Bank, Mukerian, Ramandeep Singh, and vasika navis Rajwinder Singh, Baljinder Singh and Ajay Kumar, all of Mukerian under sections 420, 465, 468 and 471 of the IPC. Founder chairman and director of Punjab Agriculture Development Bank, Mohinder Singh Samundari, alleged that these persons after forging bank documents gave loans to farmers. They also cheated the bank and the government of
Rs 4,94,400 as revenue and registration fee, alleged Samundari. — OC Pedlar held
Nawanshahr: The police nabbed drug pedlar Harjit Singh of Jhingeran village, at Khatkar Kalan village and recovered 900 gm of opium from him. A case under sections 18, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act has been registered at Banga police station.
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SMO held for misbehaving with woman health worker
Batala, July 2 DSP Mohan Lal said The SMO was arrested on the complaint of the woman health worker and a case was registered under sections 354 and 427 of the IPC at Police Station Kotli Surat Malli. The officer was drunk, it is learnt. When mediapersons tried to seek the explanation from the doctor, he even misbehaved with them.
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The lure of greener pastures, coupled with the nexus of a fake travel agent, has landed two girls into the vicious circle of forcible prostitution. The girls have been trapped at Singapore since June 19.
