Ludhiana, Jan. 4 -- The Ludhiana police have booked a Gujarat-based travel consultant for allegedly duping 25 youths from Punjab, most of them from Ludhiana, of nearly Rs.4 crore by promising genuine UK work permit visas that later turned out to be fake.

The accused has been identified as Mihul Soni, director of Current Consultant Private Limited, based in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He has been booked under relevant sections of cheating, criminal breach of trust and provisions of the Immigration Act.

The case was registered at Division Number 5 police station on the complaint of Sukhchain Singh, a resident of Jaiton in Faridkot, who is also a travel agent operating from Ludhiana.

According to police, Singh approached Soni in June 2025 to ar...