Chandigarh, Feb. 7 -- Even as Union external affairs minister S Jaishankar has assured in the Parliament about taking action against travel agents who duped 104 Indians deported from the United States, nothing much has been done in connection with past such cases as most of the victims have been hesitant to lodge FIRs, say officials.

In the Nicaragua-bound flight case of December 2023 in which over 300 Indians, including around 200 Punjabis, were being taken illegally to the US, the Punjab Police couldn't do much as only two of them came forward to lodge FIRs before a special investigation team (SIT), constituted by the Punjab government, they said.

On December 21, 2023, the Nicaragua-bound flight from Dubai landed at Vatry airport in F...