HEALTHYWAY FRAUD

2 yrs, 150 complaints, no action Police facilitated compromise, failed to register case

Chandigarh, August 20
Speaking volumes about the police inefficiency, cops at the Sector 36 police station failed to act in over 150 complaints that were received against the owner of Healthyway Immigration in Sector 42 in the past two years.
While seven cases have been registered against Healthyway owner Amit Kakkar earlier this week, sources said the police had been receiving complaints against the consultancy all these years. However, all of these have resulted in a compromise.
The consultancy has been functioning from Sector 42 since 2005 when it got a licence. The volumes of complaints against the consultancy that poured in all these years have put the role of the police under the scanner and reflect shoddy policing. The police never bothered to investigate these cases on whether or not the immigration firm was genuine and had emphasised only on mutual settlements. Sources allege that the owner of the firm enjoyed police patronage.
Amit Kakkar has been accused of forging bank documents while applying for visas for clients. As many as 14 banks are under the scanner where the owner opened fake bank accounts of their clients.
Police officials said in most of the complaints where visa applications used to get rejected, the affected party used to urge for refund and the police would successfully assist in reaching a compromise. However, the police never bothered to find the reason for the large number of complaints received against the consultancy and have acted only after a foreign mission informed them that their documents were fake.
Source: TNS, Chandigarh