Fraud Healthyway Immigration Branches are Raided

Police on Saturday continued to carry out raids in connection with the Healthyway Immigration scam. Sources in the Chandigarh Police said the raids were conducted at various branches of the company and several documents pertaining to the functioning of the immigration service was seized. A senior police officer said the functioning of a close associate of the company was under scanner and his role was being studied.
The sources in the police said checks were also carried out in Dhanas to catch hold of an employee of the immigration company, Kuldeep, who was actively involved with the owner, Amit Kakkar, in allegedly befooling the aspirants.
The sources revealed that as per the investigations the employee used to work out the details for forging the documents, while Kakkar used be the prime gainer being the owner of the company.
Further investigations are on into the matter. HTC

Remand of Healthyway Immigration Director Extended

Judicial magistrate (JMIC) Pritpal Singh on Saturday extended the police remand of Immigration consultant Amit Kakkar for another day.

Investigating officers (IO) appeared before the court for FIR number 215 and 216, and sought police remand of the accused for five days more stating that they were yet to verify from the embassy regarding allegations of forgery of documents and also needed to recover the stamps that were used in forging of documents.
Taking into consideration the application of the police, the court extended the police remand of the accused till August 21.

Kakkar was arrested on August 16 on the complaint filled by Jaswinder Singh, a resident of Professor Colony, Karheri village in Patiala, who had alleged that Kakkar along with others took Rs 66,000 from him to send him to the UK. He had alleged that the company neither sent him abroad nor returned the money.

Another complainant Mandeep Singh had alleged that he applied for a visa through Healthyway Immigration Centre, Sector 42-C, Chandigarh, to send his wife to the UK for study. He alleged that he paid Rs 1.85 lakh to the company, however, she was neither sent abroad nor the company returned the money. The police have registered seven different cases of cheating and forgery under Sections 120B, 420, 461, 467, 468 and 471 of IPC against Kakkar for allegedly luring people in the name of sending them abroad on the basis of fake documents.

The police has so far received 60 different complaints of forgery and cheating against immigration consultant Kakkar.

Healthway immigration scam

People who had applied for immigration through Healthyway have come under the scanner of Chandigarh police. The cops are verifying whether the passports and other documents submitted by them are genuine.
The Chandigarh police, during investigations, seized a large number of documents, including passports, travel documents, income tax returns and educational certificates from different branches of Healthyway Consultants.

A senior police officer said they were in the process of verifying the authenticity of these documents. He said they became suspicious after the large-scale forgery of financial documents came to light. SSP Naunihal Singh said that in case of an emergency, aspirants could move an application for the return of documents.

The applicants could prove the genuineness of the papers and take them away, he added. Another officer said it would also decide whether an aspirant would appear as a prosecution witness in case he was found innocent or as an accused if he was found guilty of forgery. If a document was found fake or forged, it would not be returned, he added. Some of these documents were seized from the branches of Healthyway agency while others were seized from individuals who had applied for immigration through the consultancy.
A few aggrieved insisted that as a result, their plans of travelling abroad were not only being delayed but in some cases were likely to be cancelled.

Rubaljeet Kaur said the police had seized her passport from the consultant's office. She said, “As of now, I have no idea when the documents will be returned.“ Her visa to the UK was also rejected. Another aspirant, Kulwant Singh from Khanna, said, “It has been double trouble for us. To begin with, the immigration agency has left us in the lurch, and now the delay in getting documents is causing further hardships for us.“

Mandeep Singh from Sangrur said the police should examine the documents on priority and return the genuine papers. NEW PROBE OFFICER The Healthway immigration scam will have a new investigating officer. In the absence of DSP Ashish Kapoor, who is going to the US for participating in the World Police and Fire Games, CID DSP Anil Joshi will investigate the case.

Meanwhile, judicial magistrate Hemraj Mittal on Friday extended the police remand of immigration consultant Amit Kakkar till August 20. The police on Friday received three more complaints against the immigration firm. The police also sealed another branch of the firm in Sector 44.

Fraud Healthyway Consultant Director's Background

In less than seven years, Amit Kakkar, the main accused in the immigration fraud cases, grew from a smalltime milk-seller to the director of Healthyway Immigration consultancy with an annual turnover of crores.
Before getting into the immigration business in 2004, 34year-old Kakkar used to supply milk on a scooter along with father Ravi Kakkar from Attawa in Chandigarh.

In 2004, Kakkar got into immigration consultancy and in 2006 launched the career consultancy, Carrier Abroad, at Sector 44, and Carrier Viewer, at Sector 35.

The period between 2007 and 2010 was most fruitful for him as the company attracted a large number of youths from the city and various parts of Punjab and Haryana, amassing huge wealth. The company claims to be an authorised education consultant for 175 colleges and universities the world over.
DSP headquarters Ashish Kapoor said the preliminary investigation suggested that Kakkar got into making fake documents between 2009 and 2010. Kakkar got in trouble after the police got inputs from the English embassy about his misdeeds.

In September 2010, Kakkar was caught on the wrong side of law after the income tax department conducted a raid at his office and imposed a fine of Rs 3.5 crore for tax evasion.

The police said that in an attempt to bring glamour and authenticity to the functioning of the company, the accused used to invite film stars to hand over immigration documents to the customers.

From 2008 onwards, the accused had spent huge sums of money in organising stage shows, featuring various film stars and Punjabi singers, in association with a local daily.

The police have so far registered eight cases of cheating against the accused while they are looking into around 80 complaints.

2-DAY POLICE CUSTODY: A local court here on Wednesday sent Amit Kakkar, director of Healthyway Immigration, to two-day police custody in another case of cheating and forgery. Investigating officer Lakhweer Singh had filed an application before the court of judicial magistrate Pritpal Singh, seeking seven-day police remand of the accused.

30 More Fraud Case against Healtyway Immigration Fraud Consultants

AROUND 30 PEOPLE LODGED COMPLAINTS WITH THE POLICE, WHO ARE LOOKING INTO THE 60 COMPLAINTS RECEIVED EARLIER

: The local police have registered three more cases against the owner of Healthyway Immigration Centre, Sector 42, taking the tally of cases to eight in the last three days.

Amit Kakkar, owner of the firm, has been booked for allegedly duping people on the pretext of sending them abroad.

Three cases under Sections 420 and 120-B of the IPC have been registered at the Sector 36 police station on the complaints lodged by Malkit Singh, resident of Sangrur; Sandeep Kumar, resident of Jalandhar; and Gaurav Thakur, resident of Pathankot.
The immigration company had taken Rs 1.5 lakh, Rs 70,000 and Rs 1.25 lakh from Malkit Singh, Sandeep Kumar and Gaurav Thakur respectively, for sending them abroad, but failed to keep the promise.
Heena, who had earlier filed a complaint, alleged that she had also been threatened by Ravi Kakkar of Healthyway.
Acting on her complaint, a case under Section 506 of the IPC has been registered at the Sector 36 police station.
The police had earlier registered five cases on the complaints filed by Mandeep Singh, resident of Sangrur; Jaswinder Singh, Avtar Singh, both residents of Patiala; Amandeep Singh, resident of Ludhiana; and Heena, resident of Chandigarh.

DSP headquarters Ashish Kapoor and DSP south BS Negi are supervising the cases. The police have appealed to the residents that in case they want to share any information in this regard, they can call at 97799 80990 and 97795 80914.

Despite repeated attempts, no one from the immigration centre was available for comment.
The police on Monday received more complaints against the company. Around 30 people lodged complaints with the police, who are already looking into the 60 complaints received earlier.

Around 50 people staged a protest outside the company office and demanded action against the owners. One Deepak Randhawa alleged that he had given Rs 5 lakh to the company last year for getting a student visa to England. Similarly, Gopal Chand alleged that the company duped him of Rs 1.75 lakh on the pretext of sending him to England.

Scam-tainted Healthyway Immigration firm's alleged link with eight other immigration companies.

Two days after police referred to scam-tainted Healthyway Immigration firm's alleged link with eight other immigration companies operating in the city, investigating officer deputy superintendent of police (CID) Anil Joshi on Friday said the police hadn't found any incriminating evidence so far of their connection with Healthyway and its managing director Amit Kakkar who is now in police custody. The eight companies are: Canme Travel Agents, Sector 17, Sunrise Immigration, Sector 8, Charm Immigration, Sector 37, Advise Immigration, Sector 9, PEC Asia, Sector 7, Global Immigration, Sector 20, Crocc Oshian, Sector 35 and Spectrum Forex, Sector 35.

Fraud Healthyway Consultant's two financiers sent to judicial custody CHANDIGARH:

A local court on Friday sent the Healthyway Immigration Consultant's two financier to judicial custody till September 9.

Judicail magistrate Pritpal Singh sent the two suspects, Anil Verma and Rajat, to judicial custody. While Rajat is resident of Sector 19, Anil runs RV Finance firm in Jalandhar.

Explaining the modus operandi, police said, “The immigration agent used to take advantage of trust the countries reposed in the system.

The travel agents prepared bank documents to show financial capabilities of applicants to sustain themselves in a foreign country by depositing money in their accounts, only to take out the amount at a later stage.“
The majority of applicants are from Sangrur, Patiala, Ludhiana and Ferozepur districts of Punjab in addition to Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

“The agents used to deposit margin money by opening a savings account in the bank suggested by the company. To procure financial documents, they would deposit Rs 9 lakh in applicant's bank account against Rs 1 lakh from applicant as charges,“ added police official.