‘Kabootar Baaji’ is an unlawful manner of human trafficking. Typically, unemployed youth or these having overseas goals land in such job scams. Whereas Dunky is a manner of sending human capital to totally different international locations through unlawful routes with out correct paperwork, in ‘Kabootar Baaji’ or faux job guarantees, individuals are usually despatched to their vacation spot utilizing legitimate passports and visas and from there, they go lacking or grow to be 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 four 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. Each claimed that they noticed Kataria’s commercial on Instagram and YouTube providing a possibility 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 four lakh from them, Kataria supplied them with tickets to Vientiane Airport in Laos. They boarded the flight on March 28.
“After we landed on the airport in Vientiane, we met an individual named Abhi who launched himself as a good friend of Kataria. A Pakistani man then dropped us at a resort. The following day, we had been taken to Naotui station from there we took a taxi to Golden Triangle. From there, Nitin Sharma and Ankit Shokin, who claimed to be buddies of Kataria, took us to an nameless Chinese language firm, the place we had been thrashed and our passports had been taken away. We had been compelled to commit cyber fraud concentrating on US residents. Round 150 Indians, together with girls, had been introduced there by means of human trafficking and had been being held hostage,” the duo claimed of their police criticism.
How They Escaped And Returned To India
The duo labored there for 2 days protecting fairly fearing for his or her lives. On the third day, they obtained just a little 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 requested Kataria to return our cash, however he refused,” the complainant stated.
The Gururam Police registered an FIR in opposition to Kataria and others below 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 Favorite Little one
Kataria shouldn’t be new to the controversy. In 2022, Kataria was arrested by the Delhi Police for smoking inside an aeroplane whereas a Dehradun court docket issued a non-bailable warrant in opposition to him the identical 12 months after he had shared a video during which he was seen ingesting in public and blocking a highway. Kataria faces one other FIR for allegedly thrashing a lady, 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.
