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An investigation led to the arrest of Devish aka Johnny Patel, a resident of Mehsana, and eight others who had sent him abroad were found missing. (actor photo/News18)
The suspected immigration buzz came to light after a woman told police her husband, Bharat Rabari, went incommunicado in February, nearly a month after he was sent to the US via the Netherlands and the Caribbean.
Gujarat State Police on Saturday identified two immigration officers who are allegedly connected to nine untraceable people during their journey from India to the USA via Caribbean countries and said the process of issuing surveillance notices against the duo is under way.
The suspected immigration furore came to light after a woman approached Brantaj police in Sabarkantha district on Wednesday with a complaint that her husband, Bharat Rabari, had gone incommunicado in February, nearly a month after he was sent to the US via the Netherlands and the Caribbean. .
An investigation led to the arrest of Devish aka Johnny Patel, a resident of Mehsana, and eight others who had sent him abroad were found missing. The untraceable people will be taken in by US immigration agents Daval Patel and Vijay Patel, Inspector Pradipsinh Vaghela of Brantej Police Station said on Saturday, adding that the process of issuing control notices against the two is underway.
Mahendra Baldevpai Patil, a native of Dingosha village in Gandhinagar district, said another agent named in the FIR was introduced on the basis of the woman’s complaint. Mahendra Patel, also known as MD, is the older brother of Jagdish Patel, who, along with his wife and two children, froze to death while trying to enter the US illegally from Canada last year, he said.
Police said at the time that the four, who hailed from Dingocha, died in severe cold conditions in January 2022 when they were walking toward the United States from Canada in a snowstorm. In her complaint to Brantaj police station on Wednesday, Vajpur village resident Chetna Rabari said her husband, Bharat Rabari, had not been traceable since February after he embarked on a trip to the US in January.
In her complaint, she said that Johnny Patel had promised her farmer husband a work permit in the United States for a fee of INR 70,000, of which the agent took 20,000 in advance while the rest had to be paid after his arrival there. .
Bharat Rabari arrived in the Netherlands in January and then landed in Dominica in February via Port of Spain in the Caribbean, but was not traced on February 4, after which Johnny Patel was contacted by his family, who then contacted Mahendra Patel.
Police said that while Johnny Patel was in custody on Thursday, efforts were on to arrest Mahendra Patel, a resident of Ranib in Ahmedabad. A statement issued by Sabarakantha Police stated that the central agencies and departments concerned with such cases have also been restricted.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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