Rajya Sabha Member Dr. Vikramjit Singh Sahni has appreciated the Punjab Police for the recent decisive action taken against illegal travel agents in Punjab. Punjab Police has so far booked 43 travel agents for illegally advertising foreign employment opportunities on social media platforms, a major step in the ongoing war against human trafficking.
Dr Sahni said he has been advocating action against illegal agents for a long time and has been raising the issue in and out of Parliament for the past one year.
Dr Sahni said that a sting operation was also conducted by his office which revealed the continued activities of banned agents in Punjab, after which a comprehensive dossier listing these illegal agents was released on June 18. In 2023, the Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab was handed over.
Dr. Sahni said that he has played an important role in evacuating the youth trapped abroad and in this connection, around 100 women of Punjab have been evacuated from the Middle East.
Dr. Sahni stressed the importance of being vigilant to the common people and said that fake travel agents cheat the naive youth by giving them jobs in foreign countries, but they end up in countries like Russia, Libya, Greece etc. – They leave in the middle.
