Complainants had been in contact with Bobby Kataria by way of Instagram.

Gurugram:

Social media influencer Balwant Kataria alias Bobby Kataria was arrested on Monday for allegedly human trafficking of two Uttar Pradesh youths, police stated.

The case has been registered in opposition to Kataria beneath part 370 of the IPC on the Bajghera Police Station Gurugram, police stated.

The complainants, Arun Kumar, a resident of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh and Manish Tomar, a resident of Hapur, stated that they had been unemployed. They had been in contact with Kataria by way of Instagram.

The complainants advised the police that on Bobby’s YouTube channel MBK, they noticed an commercial about abroad-based job. Following this they referred to as Bobby Kataria on on his WhatsApp. Bobby referred to as them to fulfill his workplace in Sector 109 on the pretext of getting them a job abroad.

The complainant then met Kataria in his workplace on 1 February 2024 and paid Rs 2,000 for registration.

After this, on the request of Bobby Kataria, on February 13, Rs 50,000 was transferred to his official account which was registered within the title of MBK World Visa Non-public Restricted.

Thereafter, on Bobby’s instruction on March 14, one other quantity of Rs 1 lakh was transferred to the account of an individual named Ankit Shaukeen. Kataria despatched the tickets of Vientiane (Laos) by Shaukeen’s WhatsApp.

On March 28, as per the directions of Bobby Kataria, Kumar obtained Rs 50,000 transformed into USD on the airport and boarded the flight to Vientiane.

Equally, lakhs of rupees had been taken from his pal Manish Tomar on the pretext of sending him to Singapore, however he was additionally made to board a flight to Vientiane.

When each of them landed at Vientiane airport, they met a younger man named Abhi, who described himself as a pal of Bobby Kataria and a Pakistani agent.

He dropped them off on the Resort Mican Son in Vientiane, the place they discovered a younger man named Ankit Shaukeen and Nitish Sharma alias Rocky. They took the victims to an nameless Chinese language firm. There each the buddies had been severely crushed and their passports had been snatched.

On the identical time, they had been compelled to commit cyber fraud in opposition to US residents. Each of them had been threatened that if the work was not carried out as per their directions then they’d not have the ability to return to India and they’d be killed there.

“About 150 Indians together with ladies had been introduced into that firm by human trafficking by brokers like Bobby Kataria on the pretext of jobs. Someway, we escaped from there and reached the Indian Embassy and got here again to India and filed a police grievance in opposition to Kataria,” the complainant advised the police.

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