The Tardeo police has arrested two travel agents from Noida, Uttar Pradesh for allegedly duping a Tardeo-based family of thousands on the pretext of arranging their tour to China and Hong Kong. When the complainant’s six-member family went abroad last year, they realised that the travel agency had not paid for their hotel rooms’ booking, and hence they were cancelled. The complainant then had to pay again for the accommodation. After returning to India, the family approached the police. The Asian Age has first reported the incident in its April 7 edition. The police is still on the lookout for other wanted accused.
The arrested accused have been identified as Amarjeet Rambasant Yadav (45) and Pratik Rajendrakumar Shrivastav (29).
According to the police, the complainant (name withheld) is a 49-year-old woman who lives with her family in CJ Colony, Tardeo. In her complaint, she had stated that in May last year, an agent named Amit Singh had called her from Todays Holidays Private Ltd. and offered a foreign tour family package. “On Singh’s insistence, the complainant agreed to take the trip in November. She then made various online payments and deposited a total of `92,997 in a bank account of the tour agency. The complainant also received online receipts and a final confirmation of the bookings,” said an officer of the Tardeo police. However, on reaching there, she realised that they had been duped.
After returning, she lodged an offense with the Tardeo police. The police initiated a probe and after visiting the registered address of the tour agency and the address given in the bank, reached Sector-58, Noida in Gautam Budhanagar district of UP and on September 6, first arrested Shrivastav and later Yadav from Sector-49. Both confessed to their role in the crime and a Mumbai court remanded them to police custody till September 13. The police is now looking for other accused Singh alias Rahul, Sumit Sharma alias Kunal and others.