New Delhi: In what could be a crucial lead into a possible human trafficking racket, a sacked employee of the US embassy in Delhi was arrested for allegedly helping 32 people get visas through illegal means.
Sanjay Kaushik – who was earlier working with the embassy as visa consultant - helped the group that approached the mission seeking visas in the guise of members of a musical troupe.
According to officials, the “musical troupe” was led by Punjabi pop singer Dolly Malkit Singh, who had earlier approached the embassy allegedly with forged documents for visas.
Kaushik runs a visa consultancy and was arrested on Monday from his residence in Janakpuri in west Delhi. He was apparently a history sheeter and was sacked from the embassy after the authorities found he allegedly connived with some travel agents and provided them illegal help in getting visas.
News agency PTI quotes an embassy official as saying that one Farooq Mehmood Chaudhury - a US-based Indian - had allegedly paid Kaushik Rs 50,000 per candidate for getting the visas.
"As he had worked in the embassy, he knew the nitty-gritty of the procedures," the official told the agency.
The official said Chaudhury was the alleged main player in the human trafficking racket and invited all of 32 in the garb of a Punjabi music troupe to the US.
Earlier in May this year, BJP MP from Gujarat Babubhai Katara was arrested from the airport while allegedly trying to smuggle a woman and a boy to Canada using his wife's and son's passport.
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