14 Punjabis land in UK without holding valid visa, sought asylum; human trafficking suspected
According to enquiries from Travel Boutique Online, Sardarsons Travels located in Master Colony, Jamalpur, Ludhiana, had requested the booking of tickets for two passengers.
PTC News Desk: A case of human trafficking has been registered against unidentified individuals after 14 Indian nationals from Punjab landed in the UK without a valid visa and sought asylum.
"It seems a case of human trafficking, in which employees of Air India at the Amritsar airport are involved. Further, there is likelihood of involvement of travel agents, who booked tickets of these passengers. Given the scale of the operation, a police investigation may be able to unearth the network," reads the FIR.
Jadwinder Singh, Gursewak Singh, Navjot Singh Aulakh, Ravinder Pal Singh Randhawa, Harwinder Singh Dhaliwal, Inderjeet Singh, Harbans Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Kiranpreet Kaur, Navjot Singh, Amandeep Singh, Harmanjot Singh and Mandeep Singh booked their tickets through various travel agents, including one ‘Travel Boutique Online’, 728, GF, Udyog Vihar Phase V, Gurugram, a prominent B2B travel distribution platform.