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Punjab Police Make First Arrest, Nab Travel Agent
The Morning Standard
|February 16, 2025
PUNJAB police made its first arrest of a travel agent involved in illegal immigration practices, following the deportation of 104 Indians from the US on February 5.
Anil Batra, one of four accused, was arrested for sending a US deportee to the US via the "Dunki route."
Talking to this newspaper, inspector Abhey Singh Chauhan said that based on a complaint of Gurwinder Singh of Bhadson, Patiala, a case was registered on February 8 against travel agent Anil Batra and three others who had sent Singh to the US via the 'Dunki route'.
This story is from the February 16, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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