A Thane woman has been running from pillar to post to register a case against an agent who allegedly lured her 26-year-old son with a job offer and took him to Myanmar, where Chinese scammers run fraud factories and have held hostage hundreds of Indians. She said the agent has been blacklisted by the Indian Embassy in Myanmar for his involvement in a job racket but the Thane police are refusing to register an FIR. According to the woman, the staff at Kasarvadvli police station told her that they won’t register a case against the agent as he has not committed an offence. She has also written to the Thane police chief.

“I’m shocked to learn that one of the agents, Jagdish Kandpal, has been blacklisted by Indian Embassy in Myanmar, yet the Thane police have not registered an FIR against him. If action is not taken on time, he will go underground as it is a big human trafficking racket,” the woman told mid-day. Amid reports of brutal torture of victims at the slave camps along the Myanmar-Thailand border, the mother is worried that her son has barely spoken to her after he left Mumbai on August 18.