Immigration Fraud ‘No Politician Speaks Of The Issue In Mohali, Punjab’.

News Source:- Immigration agents target people from Bihar, Haryana and UP

The issue of immigration fraud has remained unattended by successive governments in Mohali.

For the last few years, the district has been a hub for immigration fraud and continues to remain so. Only in the last four months, the district police managed to register at least two dozen cases against a number of travel agents within Mohali district.

As many as 471 travel agents are registered with the district administration. Although the administration has a list of all registered agents on their website, immigration fraud has remained rampant.

Satnam Singh Daun, an activist battling immigration fraud, told The Indian Expressthat the issue was never addressed by politicians.

He added that the city had hundreds of people have been defrauded, with some victims even committing suicide.

Explaining the variety of frauds committed by travel agents in the area, Satnam Singh said that the immigration owners do not issue any identity cards to their employees.

Satnam also added that people become victims to these fraudsters as they do not know how they were being talked to by the agents.

“It is a well-coordinated scam. So far, no political leader has had the will to address it. Hundreds of people continue to be the victims of these frauds. Many victims have lost their hard-earned money and life savings. No political leader had raised the issue in the district. This speaks volumes about how the political leaders do not want to address the issue at all,” he said.