Human trafficking: FIR filed against travel agent

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case of human trafficking against a Delhi-based travel agent. The agent is accused to taking money from jobless citizens while promising them lucrative jobs in China.

The FIR was registered on the direction of CBI director Alok Kumar Verma. Verma issued a direction for registration of FIR after Ministry of External Affairs registered a complaint with him alleging human trafficking racket operating from India and China.

Earlier, MC Luther, Joint Secretary and Protector General of Emigrants at the Ministry of External Affairs had written a complaint to Verma on February 3, regarding the alleged human trafficking of Indian nationals to China by a Delhi-based accused identified as Roshan Fernando.

In the complaint, Luther stated that the India consulate at Guangzhou in China had informed them that a Indian national Noor Alam was being trafficked to China from India. The victim Alam had knocked at the Consulate's doors where he alleged that Fernando was running a travel agency in name of Devin Travel and Tour Private Limited in Lajpat Nagar-I in New Delhi and running a human trafficking racket.

Alam also alleged that five more Indians had been cheated by Fernando and all of them were staying in China without proper accommodation, food, and mostly importantly, without valid visas.