India, April 12 -- An Indo-Canadian has been sentenced to 20 months of house arrest for misuse of immigrant workers at a construction site.

In a statement issued on Friday, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) said that on April 2, Gurwinder Singh Ahluwalia, a resident of Winnipeg in Manitoba, pled guilty to one count of unauthorised employment of foreign nationals and was sentenced to 20-month house arrest and ordered to pay a 50,000 Canadian dollars fine ($36,045).

The arrest followed after in August 2023, the CBSA Criminal Investigations Section began an investigation after receiving information about the "employment and mistreatment of unauthorised workers at a local construction site".

Investigators found paperwork and work ...