The Gujarat police identified two immigration officials on Saturday and said watch out notices were being prepared against them in connection with nine people who were untraceable throughout their flight from India to the United States of America via Caribbean countries.
The alleged immigration fraud was discovered when a lady reported her husband, Bharat Rabari, to Prantij police in the Sabarkantha district on Wednesday. She said that he had vanished in February, almost a month after being transported to the US through the Netherlands and the Caribbean.
A Mehsana man named Divyesh, also known as Johny Patel, was apprehended after an investigation revealed that eight other people he had dispatched overseas had vanished. The procedure to issue lookout notices against the two was ongoing, according to Inspector Pradipsinh Vaghela of the Prantij police station, who said on Saturday that untraceable individuals were to be received by US-based immigration brokers Dhaval Patel and Vijay Patel.
Mahendra Baldevbhai Patel, a resident of Gandhinagar district’s Dingucha village, is another agent included in the FIR filed in response to the woman’s allegation, he said. He stated that Mahendra Patel, also known as “MD,” is the older brother of Jagdish Patel, who died last year while attempting to enter the United States illegally from Canada together with his wife and two children.
The four, who were from Dingucha, perished in extreme cold in January 2022 while they were traveling from Canada to the US during a snowstorm, according to authorities at the time. Chetna Rabari, a resident of Vaghpur village, filed a complaint with Prantij police station on Wednesday alleging that her husband Bharat Rabari had been missing since February after a vacation to the USA in January.
She said in her lawsuit that Johny Patel had agreed to provide her farmer husband with a work visa in the USA for a price of Rs 70 lakh, of which Rs 20 lakh was received in advance by the agent and the other Rs 60 lakh was to be paid when he arrived there.
Bharat Rabari arrived in the Netherlands in January, traveled via the Caribbean island of Port of Spain to Dominica in February, and then vanished on February 4. His family then got in touch with Johny Patel, who put them in touch with Mahendra Patel.
Police claimed that while Johny Patel was being arrested on Thursday, they were working to find Mahendra Patel, a resident of Ranip in Ahmedabad. According to a press statement from the Sabarkantha Police, these problems have also been brought up with central authorities and departments.
