MOHALI – Two immigration companies have reportedly duped people of nearly Rs 50 lakh on the pretext of sending them abroad.
Hardeep Singh, a resident of a Patiala village, complained to the police that he had given Rs 8 lakh to Seven Overseas company, functioning from Phase II here, but he neither sent abroad nor returned the money.
In another case, Gurjeet Singh of Malsia Patti village in Jalandhar district, made a complaint that Deepak Arora and Karandeep, running an immigration company from Phase VI here, took Rs 41.60 lakh from some persons on the pretext of sending them abroad.
Cases have been registered against the owners of both the companies under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC and Section 24 of the Immigration Act.
