Scores of people belonging to Goraya, Ludhiana, Tanda,Kapurthala, Nurmahal, Jalandhar, Nawanshahr, Banga, Hoshiarpur, Rayya,Phagwara, today gathered outside the office of A to Z Destination Solutions PvtLtd. (immigration company), located at the PPR Mall in Jalandhar, allegingfraud worth crores by the firm.
However, the immigration firm has been lyingshut for the past many days, and the owner and other staff members are on therun.
They also held a protest against the firm alleging thatthe owner had duped them of crores of rupees on the pretext of providing themvisas for Singapore, England, Qatar and Fiji.
People who had come from different districts said: “TheCompany neither has prepared their documents nor returned the money and abovethat issued them fake paper visas.”
They said that from all the people today gathered, somehave paid an amount of Rs 50,000 to Rs 2 lakh, while others Rs 5 to7 lakh(depending upon the country they applied for) and company had assured them ofgetting their work done on time.
Meanwhile, it’s been many months that the owner was dill-dallyingthe matter and they haven’t received their documents. Besides, the company wasfound locked on several occasions and the owner of the company, PalwinderSingh, also didn’t respond to their complaints.
Vipan Kumar, a resident of Goraya said he had contactedthe company few months ago and paid the expenses for his documents, but afterreceiving the money the company had only made fake promises and didn’t tell himabout the status of his documents.
He also informed that there are around 100 to 150 peoplewho have been duped by the company, while there is no information now that whereis the owner, he said.
Likewise, Lovepreet Singh, a resident of Nakodar, saidthat he paid Rs 7 lakh for England visa without ielts. He said the ownerassured him the visa within six months; however, the owner is now on the run.
Another victim, Prabhjot Kaur, said they had paid Rs70,000 in advance to the firm and in return, the firm owner had assured visafor Singapore within 90 days.
“Though the given time has been lapsed, the firm has beenlying shut. It has cheated us and we will move a complaint in this regard withthe police,” she said.
Reportedly, the police party of Division No. 7 reachedthe spot and listened to the grievances of the complainants and had begun aninvestigation into the matter.
ASI Surjit Singh of Division No. 7 said that they hadregistered a case against the company for deceiving people on the pretext ofsending them abroad. “We are looking for the absconding owner and other staffmembers”, he added.