Amritsar: The police on Thursday booked two travel agents for allegedly duping a local resident of Rs12.95 lakh on the pretext of sending his son to Australia on study basis. Those booked were identified as Arpit Bajaj who originally belonged to Deena Nagar in Gurdaspur and runs a travel agency in Ranjit Avenue area here and Satinderpal Singh of Akali Colony here. They were booked for fraud criminal conspiracy and under the Punjab Travel Professionals Regulation Act. The complainant Narinder Singh a resident of Hussainpura area told the police that the accused cheated him of Rs12.95 lakh on the pretext of sending his son to Australia on study basis. The accused neither sent his son abroad nor returned the money. A case was registered after a preliminary probe. Investigation was now handed over to Assistant Commissioner of Police (East) Jaspreet Singh in this regard. The police said investigation was on to ascertain whether Arpit Bajaj was running a travel agency after the mandatory permission and fulfilling the norms. TNS One succumbs 18 new cases Amritsar: The Health Department authorities reported one death due to the Covid-19 contagion in the district on Friday. With this the toll has increased to 556. The victim has been identified as 45-year-old Sukhwinder Singh who was a resident of Chheharta. There has not been reported any case of new strain in the district so far. Besides the authorities reported 18 new positive cases which took the total count of infections to 14528. The new cases include nine influenza-like illness (ILI) cases and an equal number of contacts of positive patients. Meanwhile with the recovery of 42 patients the recovery count has reached 13603. At present the district has a total of 369 active cases. TNS

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