Punjab travel agents raided, MPs avoid Delhi Police

New Delhi/Jalandhar: Police probing the global human trafficking racket involving Indian MPs Tuesday raided homes and offices of travel agents in Punjab as four other MPs linked to the saga failed to turn up for questioning at the Delhi Police headquarters.
The latest developments that followed the dramatic arrest of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Babubhai Katara came even as authorities in Dubai deported 36 men from Punjab and Haryana for traveling on fake documents.
Delhi Police arrested Harbhajan Singh, a travel agent from Maqsoodan area of Jalandhar, and recovered 34 passports from him besides fake visas of some countries, letterheads of central government ministries and also fake stamps.
The police, who were following the leads provided by aides of the arrested MP, seized computers, scanners and other equipment used to prepare fake visas and other travel documents.
With Katara, who has been suspended by the BJP from its parliamentary wing, in police custody, Delhi Police's Crime Branch asked four other MPs -- Mohammed Tahir Khan, Ashok Rawat and Mitra Sen Yadav (all BSP) and BJP's Ram Swarup Koli - to appear before them. All four failed to show up for questioning.
Replying to the police notice, Khan and Rawat said they were presently engaged in campaigning for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and could join the probe only after May 8 when the month-long balloting ends.
24/04/07 IANS/Monsters and Critics.com, UK

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