Chandigarh, July 16
The police has arrested Anu Bhattacharya, director of immigration company ACME Career World Pvt Ltd, Sector 34, in a case of fraud. The accused had allegedly duped nine persons of Rs 81 lakh on the pretext of sending them to Canada.
The police has arrested Anu Bhattacharya, director of immigration company ACME Career World Pvt Ltd, Sector 34, in a case of fraud. The accused had allegedly duped nine persons of Rs 81 lakh on the pretext of sending them to Canada.
The victims belonged to different states and were cheated by the accused on false promises. The complainants, including Gurjeet Singh of Pilibhit district in UP, had approached Bhattacharya through an advertisement and paid Rs 9 lakh each in November, 2010. The accused had provided a Canadian visa to Gurjeet, but it was later found to be fake, the police said.
The police sources said the director was arrested following Gurjeet’s complaint and those of eight others who were duped in a similar fashion. The accused had shut down his office in Sector 34 and was arrested through tower location of his cell phone from Zirakpur.
The police said there were three more accused in the case and all were at large.
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