Hyderabad: Two travel agents held in visa racket

Hyderabad: Malkajgiri Special Operations Team (SOT) nabbed two travel agents, who had cheated several youth promising them job visas, at Medipally on Monday. They also seized Rs 2 lakhs cash from their possession. 

The arrested have been identified as Adam Raju, 55, and Kandukuri Narayana, 45. They were working along with one Srinivas Reddy who is now absconding. They had collected Rs 30 lakh from eight unemployed youth of Jagtial district with a promise of providing them jobs abroad.

According to SOT officials, Adam Raju has been involved in illegal job visa racket along with his associates K. Narayana and Srinivas Reddy. Narayana approached unemployed youth in the village of Jagtial district and informed them that his friend named Adam Raju has good contacts with travel agents who provide job visas to unemployed students, interested in working abroad.

The eight students believed Narayana and paid him Rs 30 lakhs as cash to provide them visas. to Israel. Later, Narayana consulted his associates Adam Raju and Srinivas Reddy. Adam Raju informed Narayana that he has agents who can arrange visas to Israel and took Rs 20 lakhs cash from him in 2016. But there was no result and he kept delaying the process by saying lame excuses. “Later, Narayana took Rs 10 lakh and paid some amount to Srinivas Reddy for helping him out in providing job visas. But there was no progress here too,”  Syed Rafeeq, Addl DCP, SOT, said.

Fed up of the delay, the victims pressurised them to return their money and since then, the suspects had switched off their mobiles and went absconding. Based on technical evidence, they were nabbed . They were handed over to Medipally Police, along with the seized cash, for further investigation.