CBI Files Case Against Five For Attempted Trafficking Of Minors To US

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The CBI case was registered after a complaint was made by the US embassy
trying to traffic minors to the United States for an "educational trip".According to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR, the case
of Kings Punjab Travels, Gagan Gupta, a resident of Pathankot, Chetan Sabharwal, a resident of Chandigarh, Lovepreet Singh, a resident of
Embassy's Assistant Regional Security Officer-Investigator William J Aylward said that on August 10, 2017, a United Airlines security
official posted at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) in Delhi contacted the US embassy officials to report that a woman by the
were unable to corroborate the reason for travelling to the US and the physical appearances of the children did not match with the photos in
to traffic the children namely Amanpreet Singh Multani, Akashdeep Singh, Mohit and an unidentified child under the assumed names of
Karanveer Singh, Sambhav, Milan Mehra and Inderdeep to the US as students of St Joseph's Convent School."She misrepresented herself as
principal of St Joseph's Convent School, authorised to take the minors for an 'educational trip' to the US," the agency said.The CBI also
found that Balraj Singh helped in arranging the visas and school identity cards for the children, while Sabharwal had earlier approached the
school for facilitating an "education tour" to the US for its students
He had also facilitated interviews for the students and staff members with the US embassy in New Delhi.Lovepreet Singh and Tilak Raj were
registered a case against Kala, a resident of Punjab and Aryan, a resident of Delhi, over illegal trafficking of minor girls to Kenya on the