Duped by travel agency, Jalandhar man ends life

Ref:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/duped-by-travel-agency-jalandhar-man-ends-life/articleshow/58780556.cms

JALANDHAR: A 29-year-old man hanged himself from the ceiling fan after an immigration agency that promised him smooth passage to the US cheated him of over Rs 6 lakh. 

In his two-page suicide note, Naveen Teji described his predicament as he had to return from Georgia, which the agents first said was a temporary stopover on his way to the US. 

His father Tirath Ram Teji told TOI that his son took a complaint to police on December 26 last year, but it proved futile as the cops failed to help him get the money back or arrest the cheats. His son had been in depression, he said. 

In the suicide note, Teji described the torture he was subjected to in Georgia. His note leaves investigators possible clues on stopovers used by unscrupulous travel agents to send people abroad illegally. 

His father, a junior engineer with PSPCL, said, "He went to his room to sleep after being with us till 12.30am." 

In his suicide note, Teji described how he was cheated by the travel agent Satish Bhargava, his wife and Dharamvir Saini who run Crown Immigration in Urban Estate area of the city. 

The trio is on the run after the police registered cases against them under various sections of IPC. 

"They signed an agreement with me and promised that I would be first sent to Russia and then to Armenia, from where I would be sent to Uruguay in 15 days. From there, three months later, I would make my entry to the US. When I reached Armenia, they took the entire money from my father, saying they would fly me to the US from Europe. My father broke a fixed deposit to fund my travel. After that, Gaurav Sharma of Crown Immigration took me to Tbilisi in Georgia and I was put under the charge of a man taking instructions from Bhargava's wife. Gaurav then returned to Armenia," Naveen wrote.