Chandigarh, May 16
Five immigration agents were arrested here this evening along with 52 passports while illegally interviewing persons for recruitment in Arabian countries. Dhyan Singh of Hoshiarpur, Nand Lal of Ram Darbar, Jasbir Singh of Ropar, Anil Kumar of Daddu Majra and Tejpal of Khattal village in Panchkula were booked under Section 420 of the IPC before being arrested.
The police raided a place in Maloya after a local immigration agent, Bhupinder Singh, who is running B. S. Enterprises in Sector 42, complained that these persons were conducting interviewing for recruitment in Arabian countries without a licence and permission. Bhupinder Singh informed the police that Dhyan Singh and his accomplices had 17 passports and Rs 1.5 lakh in their possession. The police, however, could not recover the money.
The police asked the recruiting agents, who are authorised to carry on their operations in Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur, if they had any licence from the Labour Ministry to recruit people in Chandigarh and permission to conduct interviews in Maloya. The agents could not furnish any document to support their claim that they were legally recruiting people for assignments in Saudi Arabia. The police is planning to recover the money and the 17 passports. The police said the agents had called the labourers to Maloya for interview. However, the police reached before the labourers could appear for it.
According to the police, an agent, apart from having a licence to recruit people from a particular area, must also have permission to conduct interviews on particular days. The police said the agents used to charge around Rs 10,000 with the bio-data initially. The agents used to charge a candidate around Rs 60,000 for a job in Arabian countries.
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