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August 15, 2011

Healthyway Immigration raided

Officials of the Chandigarh Police raid the office of Healthyway Immigration Consultant Pvt Ltd, Sector 42, ChandigarhProvided ‘fake’ documents for visa; director absconding
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 13
Following complaints of fraud by a prominent travel agency operating from Sector 42, Chandigarh, a team of the UT Police today raided Healthyway Immigration Consultancy and registered two separate cases of cheating. 

The company owner is absconding and raids are on to nab him, the police said. The travel agency, operating since the past 10 years, is in the dock for allegedly providing fake documents for obtaining visa in return of money.
The police said it received five complaints against the company. While the police acted on two complaints, antecedents of the rest of the three complaints are being verified.
The police registered a case under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC at the Sector 36 police station. The case was registered on the complaint of Mandeep Singh, a resident of Dhuri tehsil in Sangrur district of Punjab, against director of the company Amit Kakkar, his mother Saroj Kakkar, employees Kuldeep Singh, Seema Dogra and others.
Mandeep alleged that he applied for a visa through Healthyway Immigration Centre, Sector 42-C, Chandigarh, to send her wife to UK for study. He alleged that he paid Rs 1.85 lakh to the company. However, she was neither sent abroad not the company return the money, the complainant alleged. 
Another complainant Jaswinder Singh, a resident of Professor Colony, Karheri village in Patiala, alleged that Amit Kakkar along with others took Rs 66,000 from him to send him abroad (UK). He alleged that the company failed to sent him abroad and also did not return the money.
The police also raided the Mohali, Phase 3B-II residence of the accused. No arrest has been made so far. The owners of Healthyway Immigration have been making tall claims of paving the way for a number of students to fulfil their wish to study in countries including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Spain.
DSP (Headquarters) Ashish Kapoor, who is heading the special investigating team, to look into complaints of immigration fraud, said the company provided fake documents to a number of clients whose applications for visa were rejected. The clients, who lost their hard-earned money complained to the police following which a case was registered. 

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