How 9 People Were Conned With Promise Of Job In Canada By ‘Dunki’ Agent

New Delhi/Lonavala: 

A man who claimed to have a business in Canada cheated nine unsuspecting people, including a woman and her two children, after falsely promising to send them to Canada for a job.

As depicted in the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer film ‘Dunki’, the popular technique is used by migrants wherein they transit through other countries with lenient travel document requirements to reach their final destinations, usually countries like the US, the UK and Canada.

Mohit Chaddha invited the victims, who were from Ludhiana, to a lavish bungalow in Maharashtra’s Lonavala, took them for a visit to Imagica water park and partied with them before giving them a spiked beverage and stealing their belongings. The victims were promised a job in a food packaging company in Canada

He fled with six mobile phones, ₹ 2 lakh worth of cash and even transferred ₹ 7.5 lakh from a woman’s bank account using her phone, all while his victims were unconscious. Two men named Harjeet Singh and Satish Rao have been accused of assisting him.

One of the female victims said she met Mohit on the matrimonial website Shaadi.com and that he promised to marry her and take her to Canada.

“I have sold all my household items in Ludhiana, I have become homeless. Everything happened within a few days. Actually, his behaviour was very good. Ask anyone if there was even one percent doubt. No one doubted that person,” Surinder Kaur said.