KOCHI: Kadavanthra police arrested a person on charge of cheating people by offering them holiday package to Lakshadweep.
The accused Abdul Salaam, 44, of Kaloor, was picked up from near the South railway station on late Thursday.
The victims, nearly 10, had earlier filed a complaint with the city police commissioner. According to police, the accused had proper license to work as a tour operator in the past, but he no longer has the license. However, he continued to operate as a freelance operator.
The accused has a website publishing Lakshadweep tour package offers, which looks like an authorised website.
He used to collect money from tourists, who landed in his net. He is suspected to have collected around Rs. 12 lakh and returned a part of the amount to people. Police suspects that more people might have been cheated along similar lines.
The accused has been charged with Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the IPC.
He was later produced before the court and remanded.
