TWO BOOKED FOR DUPING MIGRANTS

MOHALI : Police have booked two persons, including the owner of a fleet of private buses, for cheating migrant workers in Mohali’s Madanpura village by charging them ₹3,800 each and making false promises to take them to their home state Bihar. Acting on information on Saturday that 70 to 80 migrants, including children, had collected at the parking lot of Bassi Theatre in Phase 2 in violation of the curfew, the police discovered that false promises had been made to take them to Bihar by buses leaving in the evening. The police arrested Akhilesh, an accountant working for Harvinder Singh, the owner of the buses. A case under section 188 and 420 of the IPC has been registered at the Phase 1 police station.