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| Where are Rupees nine crores swindled by Hajeej India? | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Dec 24: Rupees nine crores collected fraudulently from aspiring Hajj pilgrims by Hajeej India have vanished into thin year!
Hajj travel operators, Hajeej India collected money from aspiring Hajj pilgrims who were finally told their visas had not been received from the Saudi embassy. The agitated aspiring pilgrims demanded their money back and this forced the owners of Hajeej India to go underground leaving the pilgrims high and dry.
Fabiyan Wahid, the owner of the company who had gone underground was arrested by the State police from Rajasthan and brought to Srinagar for interrogation. The owner of the company is in police lock up in Srinagar after he was remanded to police custody by a local court.
The investigators have already started his custodial interrogation to make their case against the Hajj travel operator.
Nearly 500 aspiring Hajj pilgrims could not undertake this year's journey to Saudi Arabia because they were duped by the owners of this company. Day in and day out, the agitating people are gathering in the Press Enclave in the city demanding their money back. The police have seized the bank accounts of the company but sources said there is not enough money in these accounts to compensate the duped pilgrims.
Meanwhile, the additional district development commissioner (Srinagar) has carried out a probe into the affairs of Hajeej India and ordered sealing of a residential house in Harwan area, a flat in Rajasthan and some other properties belonging to the owners of the company. Sources have also indicated that even if the entire confiscated properties are auctioned, it would not be possible to recover the rupees nine crores those have been swindled by the company.
Except for accommodating around 50 pilgrims who booked their travel through Hajeej India, all other aspiring Hajjis totaling around 500 have been duped by this company and the amount paid by the duped pilgrims is rupees nine crores.
The question is how a company like Hajeej India was allowed to operate? Where is the huge amount of money that has been swindled by the company from innocent aspiring pilgrims? If the money has not been used for the purpose for which it was collected, then it must be somewhere. It has to be either in the hitherto undisclosed bank accounts of the owners, their relatives and friends or else the company must have made investments somewhere. Money is one thing that cannot be hidden.
While the State police is trying to recover the swindled amount from the owners of the company the mental agony and torture of those who intended to perform the holiest Muslim journey this year uncompensated. After all, these innocent people had not paid money for purchasing a flat or a piece of land. In most cases the amounts paid to the company must have been the savings of their lifetime for the aspiring Hajjis.
Like all criminal cases, the police can only take the investigations to a logical conclusion before the hot scent dies out. With the passage of time, the swindled amount might vanish permanently. What needs to be ensured is the fact that the guilty do not go unpunished, but what is more important than that, is the fact that the people who parted with the savings of their lifetime get their money back. It can only happen sooner or never. |
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