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Seize Srinagar Haj travel operator's property: Probe team
Saturday November 26, 2011 11:18:29 PM,
IANS
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Kashmir Haj pilgrims duped by travel agency
Despite
paying all expenses, more than 500 Kashmiris cannot perform the
Haj pilgrimage this year thanks to a local travel agency that
backed out at the last moment, the victims say. Dozens of locals
who had paid all expenses to a local travel agency one year earlier
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Srinagar: A team
probing the duping of over 500 people by a local Haj tour operator
Saturday recommended confiscation of his property to compensate
the duped pilgrims, an official statement said here.
Srinagar's Additional District Magistrate Muhammad Akbar Ganai,
who was appointed to probe the alleged duping of the Haj pilgrims
by Al-Hajeej, a local tour agency, has recommended confiscation of
the operator's immoveable properties.
In his inquiry report, Ganai said that all the 500 passports of
the intending pilgrims duped by the tour operator have already
been recovered from him and are now being released to the passport
holders in accordance with the law.
The enquiry officer has recommended that the properties in the
name of the tour agency owner be confiscated and put to auction
after completing legal formalities so that the duped pilgrims are
compensated. The properties include a hotel at Ajmer (Rajasthan),
a flat at Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) and a house in Srinagar.
The victims should be compensated for the sums of money they gave
the tour operator for the promised arrangements for this year's
Haj, the officer's report said.
As a future precaution, the enquiry officer has recommended that
an audit be carried out of all such tour operators and travel
agencies which are involved in this trade. No tour operator be
allowed to do business regarding Haj and Umrah unless he has
obtained a no objection certificate from the state Haj committee.
More than 500 intending local pilgrims were duped of more than
Rs.10 crore after the Al-Hajeej tour and travel agency failed to
arrange for their departure to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage
this year.
The owners of the travel agency had said they could not arrange
for the departure of their clients as the travel documents had not
been received from the Saudi embassy in New Delhi.
The lid was blown from the fraud after the owners failed to refund
the huge amounts of money they had collected from the clients.
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