Tribune News Service
Avneet Kaur
Jalandhar, June 24
Brijesh Mishra, an Indian immigration agent accused of involvement in a scandal associated to fake Canadian college admission letters, has been apprehended in Canada and is at present going through legal charges.
Mishra, who operates an immigration company referred to as EMSA in Jalandhar, went lacking simply earlier than the scandal got here to gentle. The state of affairs has put tons of of scholars from Punjab and different Indian states susceptible to deportation because of the fraudulent college admission letter rip-off.
The Canada Border Services Agency took motion in opposition to Mishra on Friday, charging him with providing immigration recommendation with no licence and counselling others to misrepresent or withhold info from authorities.
Mishra’s inadmissibility to Canada was found when he tried to enter the nation, resulting in his arrest. After being held in custody, charges had been formally filed in opposition to him on Friday for his alleged function in issuing fraudulent letters of acceptance to potential Indian college students looking for admission to Canadian establishments.
Brijesh Mishra is at present in pre-trial detention in British Columbia. According to a supply, since he has been criminally charged, his custody has been transferred from the Canada Border Services Agency to regulation enforcement in British Columbia. “A bail listening to for Mishra is scheduled for tonight, though there’s a risk of an adjournment, in which case, the bail listening to would happen on Monday,” he stated.
These developments observe the current announcement by Immigration Minister Sean Fraser, who pledged to halt the pending deportations of worldwide Indian college students who declare to have been deceived by Mishra and different unscrupulous brokers.
Meanwhile, a gaggle of affected college students, numbering in tons of, had just lately written a letter addressed to the Chief Minister of Punjab, urging swift motion to handle the difficulty. They emphasised the significance of figuring out the immigration brokers and companies concerned in these fraudulent actions.
The affected college students allege that they had been deceived by Mishra and different unscrupulous brokers.
They stated their admission letters had been tampered with, they usually solely found the difficulty when flagged by border officers throughout their postgraduate work allow or everlasting residence software processes.
Reacting to Mishra’s arrest, Inderjit Aulakh, a scholar, stated, essentially the most needed particular person in the case has been arrested, and “we hope he exposes the doable nexus on how he defrauded 1000’s”.
