Tribune News Service
Bathinda, December 20
A city-based immigration firm allegedly duped around 22 city residents of approximately Rs 18 lakhs on the pretext of sending them to Armenia. As per residents who are now terming it a fraud, the travel agent of the firm has locked the office and is absconding now.
They said, “Even the air travel tickets provided by them were fake and we had to return from the Delhi airport after the authorities concerned raised questions over the authenticity of the documents/tickets. When we contacted the assistant working at the immigration firm, she told us that the tickets have exceeded the travel time limit and asked us to return to Bathinda so that she could provide fresh tickets to us. But when we came back to Bathinda from Delhi, we were shocked to see that the office of the immigration firm was lying locked. ”