Feb 18, 2025 08:03 PM IST
A bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Harmeet Singh Grewal handed the course whereas disposing a public curiosity litigation filed by Mohali resident and advocate Kanwar Pahul Singh on February 17.
The Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom has requested the Punjab authorities to determine on a illustration looking for motion towards unlawful journey brokers duping harmless folks by illegally sending them overseas.
The Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom has requested the Punjab authorities to determine on a illustration looking for motion towards unlawful journey brokers duping harmless folks by illegally sending them overseas. (Getty Pictures/iStockphoto/ Representational picture)
A bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Harmeet Singh Grewal handed the course whereas disposing a public curiosity litigation filed by Mohali resident and advocate Kanwar Pahul Singh on February 17.
The petitioner sought organising of “emigration check posts” and an upgraded record of “certified recruiting agents”.
The plea was filed within the wake of the deportation of a number of unlawful Indian immigrants from the US just lately and sought instructions for speedy steps to ascertain the verify posts in all of Punjab underneath the Emigration Act, 1983, to streamline the process of emigration and forestall unlawful immigration.
“The incident like the recent major deportation of illegal Indian immigrants by the US caused losses of crores of rupees to the people of Punjab,” stated the petitioner.
He sought instructions for upgrading the record of “certified recruiting agents and permitted employers established outside India” so that folks might have an quick access to the emigration course of and forestall them from falling sufferer to faux journey brokers.
He sought instructions for speedy motion towards all such faux journey brokers working within the state underneath the Punjab Prevention of Human Smuggling Act to make sure the prevention of human trafficking by way of “donkey routes”.
The state and the Centre have been directed to contemplate the illustration and take a choice on the matter inside 30 days and talk the identical to the petitioner lawyer.
The petitioner stated the protector of emigrants in Chandigarh has forwarded a complete of 127 complaints over unscrupulous brokers to the Punjab authorities for motion previously 12 months. Of the complaints, 57 had been obtained from victims, he stated.
Notably, after the primary batch of unlawful Indian immigrants had been deported from the US on February 5, the Punjab authorities fashioned a particular investigation crew of the Punjab Police to probe the problem of unlawful human trafficking. Two extra batches of deportees arrived on February 15 and 16.
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