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Human trafficking racket busted

NEW DELHI: Two persons have been arrested by the crime branch of the Delhi police for allegedly running a human trafficking racket and facilitating acquisition of U.S. visas by over a hundred people on fake documents.

A visa applicant from Punjab has also been arrested for being in possession of fake documents.

A special team of the Crime Branch had received information about a racket operating in Delhi for the past three years in which U.S. visas were being procured on fake documents.

Based on this, Pawan Mishra of Dakshinpuri was arrested when he came to Central Market of Rohini. Two passports in the names of Ravinder Kumar and Parveen Kumar and several fake documents, including bank statements, authority letters, visa fee receipts and visa applications, were allegedly recovered from him.

The alleged mastermind of the racket, Ajay Shukla of Green Park, was later arrested at the instance of Pawan. Based on the information provided by the two, the team raided 17 Safdarjung Staff Quarters in West Kidwai Nagar and seized two computers, printers, rubber stamps, over a hundred passports and fake documents, the police said.

Gur Sahib Singh of Patiala was arrested for allegedly being in possession of fake documents.

The police said Ajay and Pawan used to approach prospective U.S. visa-seekers with a promise to facilitate acquisition of the travel document and applied for the same on the basis of fake documents.

The accused would apply to the U.S. Embassy for 10-15 visas per month on an average and managed to procure three-four travel documents.

He would charge up to Rs. 5 lakh from successful applicants and Rs. 20,000 as facilitation fee from those who had failed to procure the visa, the police said.

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