SRINAGAR,OCT 10:“They provided visas which were fake and forged, thereby cheated them and grabbed their money,” read the statement. Crime Branch has lodged a FIR against a job consultancy, Blue Star Immigration Pvt Ltd, Punjab for duping the Al-Jumeirah Consultancy and candidates on the pretext of providing jobs outside the country. According to an official statement, the Crime Branch, Kashmir received a complaint from Shahid Iqbal Matoo and Suhail Mushtaq Mislee partners of Al-Jumeirah Consultancy situated at Habib Complex near National School Karan-Nagar, alleging therein that Gurpreet Singh and his wife Sandeep Kour (Director of Blue Star Immigration Punjab cheated and duped the complainants of an amount of Rs 25 lakh on the pretext of providing visas and jobs to candidates outside the country. They provided visas which were fake and forged, thereby cheated them and grabbed their money,” read the statement.Subsequently, a preliminary enquiry was initiated in the Crime Branch. During the course of enquiry, it came to fore that Al-Jumeirah Consultancy approached Sandeep Kour Director Blue Star Immigration, Mohali for providing job and visas to 12 candidates and paid an amount of Rs 21, 20,000 to the suspects. The money was transferred through different ICICI Bank A/C Nos. provided by the suspects. Then after they provided visa to 12 candidates but on confirmation the visas are tourist visas not job visas. Only 04 candidates went to Georgia who remained there for 27 days and were forced to bear all the expenses of boarding and lodging but no job was provided to them and as such they returned to India after 27 days,” read the statement. It also came to fore that other 4 candidates namely Omer Qadir, Aadil Nissar, Saqib Shakeel and AzharHameed were sent to Singapore but they were detained at Singapore Airport twice and were deported back to India on account of insufficient travel, other required documents and fake bookings of hotels. These candidates were made to pay 40,000 per candidate as fine at IGI Airport New Delhi.
