‘Kabootar Baaji’ is an unlawful method of human trafficking. Often, unemployed youth or these having overseas desires land in such job scams. While Dunky is a method of sending human capital to totally different nations through unlawful routes with out correct paperwork, in ‘Kabootar Baaji’ or pretend job guarantees, individuals are typically despatched to their vacation spot utilizing legitimate passports and visas and from there, they go lacking or change into untraceable. This was allegedly the case that landed social media influencer, Youtuber and Instagram fame Bobby Kataria within the soup.
Kataria was arrested after two males approached Gurugram police alleging that Kataria defrauded them of greater than Rs 4 lakh within the guise of offering them jobs overseas. The criticism was filed by Arun Kumar, a local of Fatehpur, and Manish Tomar, a resident of Dholana in Uttar Pradesh. Both claimed that they noticed Kataria’s commercial on Instagram and YouTube providing a chance to work overseas.
How The Fraud Unfolded
Arun and Manish contacted Bobby Kataria utilizing the given numbers and met him in his workplace at a Gurugram mall. After taking round Rs 4 lakh from them, Kataria offered them with tickets to Vientiane Airport in Laos. They boarded the flight on March 28.
“When we landed at the airport in Vientiane, we met a person named Abhi who introduced himself as a friend of Kataria. A Pakistani man then dropped us at a hotel. The next day, we were taken to Naotui station from there we took a taxi to Golden Triangle. From there, Nitin Sharma and Ankit Shokin, who claimed to be friends of Kataria, took us to an anonymous Chinese company, where we were thrashed and our passports were taken away. We were forced to commit cyber fraud targeting US citizens. Around 150 Indians, including women, had been brought there through human trafficking and were being held hostage,” the duo claimed of their police criticism.
How They Escaped And Returned To India
The duo labored there for 2 days maintaining fairly fearing for his or her lives. On the third day, they received a bit of window to flee and ran for his or her security. They headed to the Indian Embassy and narrated their ordeal. The embassy organized for his or her return to India. “After returning, we asked Kataria to return our money, but he refused,” the complainant stated.
The Gururam Police registered an FIR in opposition to Kataria and others underneath Sections 323 (inflicting damage), 342 (wrongful confinement), 506 (felony intimidation), 420 (dishonest), 364 (abduction), 370 (shopping for and disposing of any particular person as a slave), 120-B (felony conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and part 10/24 of the Immigration Act. After this, police raided Kataria’s workplace in Gururam Mall and arrested him from there.
Bobby Kataria: Controversy’s Favourite Child
Kataria is just not new to the controversy. In 2022, Kataria was arrested by the Delhi Police for smoking inside an aeroplane whereas a Dehradun courtroom issued a non-bailable warrant in opposition to him the identical yr after he had shared a video wherein he was seen consuming in public and blocking a street. Kataria faces one other FIR for allegedly thrashing a girl, posting vulgar messages about her on social media and giving her dying threats in 2022. He was additionally arrested in Gurugram for misbehaving with police personnel.
