Panchkula, May 4 -- A couple was arrested for duping a carpenter of Rs.4.5 lakh after falsely promising of providing him a job in Canada, police said. The immigration fraud case was registered in Pinjore.

As per Tajinder Pal Singh, the in-charge of the anti-immigration fraud unit of the Panchkula police, the accused, identified as Namrita Arya, alias Ritu, and her husband Ravi Sharma, were apprehended from Kaithal on Saturday. The couple has been remanded to three days of police custody.

According to the complaint lodged on May 3, 2024, by 39-year-old Mohammad Amzad, a carpenter residing in AWS, Amarawati, Pinjore, he came in contact with the couple in June 2022 while working on a contract at their residence in DLF, Panchkula.

The accu...