The Fact News Service
Chandigarh, April 23
Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan said our Government is taking large-scale action against unauthorized travel agents to protect the youth of Punjab who had gone illegally to different countries including America. Even though the practice of defrauding innocent unemployed boys and girls of Punjab by promising them to give jobs abroad still continues.
A young girl Karamjit Kaur resident of village Panjgrahi Kalan, narrated her story in an emotional way that if Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan had not come as a savior (messiah) for her, I would have committed suicide. Karamjit Kaur disclosed that an agent Amarjit Kaur, a resident of Jalalabad village in Moga district, charged Rs 15,000 from her and sent her to ‘Muscat’ on a tourist visa with the condition that if she does not like the work there, she can return back. Moreover, the passport and mobile phone of Karamjit Kaur were taken into possession.
She further revealed that the curtain was raised on this fraud racket when I personally saw that 30 girls were forced to spend the night in one room, who sometimes spend the night hungry and thirsty due to helplessness. You have to say yourself a Muslim or a Christian girl to get a job there and our phone conversations were also monitored by a team when we spoke with our parents. Only we were allowed to say, ‘We are well-off here and doing a job very well,’ etc.
While weeping, Karamjit Kaur said that girls from different states of the country are misled by travel agents and then sold to ‘Muscat’ like countries. She further disclosed that then those girls become slaves in Muscat like countries. Parents could not find the whereabouts of those girls.
Karamjit Kaur said that the agent took one lakh rupees from her, and the entire amount was deposited in an account of a bank situated in Punjab. She expressed apprehension that blank cheques bearing her signatures are still with the travel agent, which could be misused by the travel agent. She secretly called Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Sandhwan for her help and then Speaker spoke to the DSP of Moga. Now Karmjit Kaur has come back to her home with the efforts made by Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan.
It is pertinent to mention here that all expenses including the ticket were borne by the Speaker for her return back. The entire family of Karamjit Kaur says that we are always indebted to the Speaker.
