Thane police register FIR against Indian agents of Myanmar fake IT job racket

The Thane police have finally registered an FIR against the Indian agents of the Myanmar fake IT job racket This comes after midday highlighted their alleged wrongdoings in the Saturday edition of this newspaper Hours after the report was published Thane Police Commissioner Jai Jeet Singh got in touch with this correspondent to get the details of the complainant a teacher from ThaneShe was then asked to visit Kasarvadavali police station to record her statement The woman said ldquoI am thankful to midday for helping me file the FIR against agents Jagdish Tiwari and Jagdish Kandpal who lured my son into the racketrdquoldquoMy son is in danger and needs to be rescued I am worried for his safetyrdquo said the woman She also claimed that she had been doing rounds of the police station but a police officer had been trying to dissuade her from filing an FIR ldquoI had submitted my complaint to Kasarvadavali police on October 21 and since then I had been making rounds of the police station But they would never give priority to my complaint It was only after midday intervened and published an article Assistant Police Inspector Ravindra Phad who was earlier dissuading me to register an FIR saying it does not amount to any offence requested me to visit the police station and subsequently an FIR was registeredrdquoAlso read Maharashtra Bank employee robbed of Rs 1175 lakh in ThaneThe complainant shows a photo of Jagdish Kandpal PicAtul KambleInitially Thane police registered the FIR under Sections 363 kidnapping and 420 cheating of Indian Penal Code IPC but on Sunday the woman was again called at the police station where she was asked to undersign a document by the police to add stringent sections of the IPC Passports Act Emigration Act to the existing FIRldquoThough I had mentioned everything in my complaint the police had added only two sections of the IPC But on Sunday they promised to make the case strongerrdquo she addedThe case has been filed against both the agents of whom Kandpal has been blacklisted by the Indian Embassy in MyanmarJagdish Kandpalrsquos chat with Chinese operators where he shared the number of a policemanPossible linksThe complainant further told midday that when the FIR was being registered her son who was unavailable on WhatsApp for days was suddenly online and made a video call ldquoKandpal has been telling me that he is not an agent and that he does not know anyone in Myanmar where my son is enslaved by the Chinese scammers Then how come my son was suddenly online on his WhatsApp and called me when I was at the police station He was visibly terrified during the call as if he was being monitored by someonerdquo she saidKandpal who has been claiming that he was not an agent has however shared screenshots of his chats with the Chinese scammers with the woman ldquoKandpal is in direct touch with his foreign coordinator He has been sending me screenshots of his chat with Chinese scammers In one such chat Kandpal has even shared the number of inspector Phad I donrsquot understand why he would share the phone number of a police officer with the scammers This is beyond me So I request the government of India to help me rescue my sonrdquo she urgedOne agent lsquountraceablersquoThe Thane policersquos delay in taking legal action against the agents has paved the way for one of these conmen to disappearldquoAfter registering the FIR we visited the houses of both the accused We have submitted one notice to Jagdish Tiwari but another accused Jagdish Kandpal is untraceable I have tried multiple times to call him but he did not respond to my callsrdquo said subinspector Chandrashekhar SapkaleldquoBut we will trace him Kandpal soonhelliprdquo he addedFreed but not freeNearly a dozen Indian youth who were enslaved in Myanmar at the hands of their Chinese captors have paid 5000 approx Rs 41 lakh each to earn their freedom on Saturday But their return to the country is still farldquoAfter we arranged the money through family and friends we were set free by the fraud factories But moments after we crossed the international border and entered Thailand local authorities detained usrdquo one of the victims told midday from Maesot in ThailandHe added ldquoIt is surprising that these authorities were sleeping when we were being taken to Myanmar from the same route and did nothing to stop the vehicles where humans were trafficked But they did not miss to detain us after we somehow managed to set ourselves free It clearly proves how deeprooted corruption is involved to help them flourish in the fake job racketrdquoTalking about the area where victims have been kept hostage in Myanmar an official at Indian Embassy in Myanmar said ldquoThe area is out of control of the Myanmar authorities and rebel groups hold sway in that areardquoAnother victim said ldquoThe Government of India is also doing nothing to help us We managed to come out of Myanmar The Government of India should at least make us feel comfortable in Thailand but we have been detained by the authorities at Maesot as we violated the visa rule We have been telling them that we are victims and were trapped in Myanmar but no one is here to listen to our grievanceshellip now we are being bundled into a jailrdquo21Day in October when Thane teacher first filed police complaint5000Money victims paid to Chinese captors for freedom