Mohali, March 14 -- The Phase 1 police have lodged three FIRs against the owner and staff of an immigration firm for duping three persons of Rs.30.65 lakh in all with false promises of sending them abroad.

In the first case, police booked Rakesh Rikhi, owner of Rudraksh Group Overseas, Phase 1, besides his staff, including Gurpreet Singh, Amit Sharma, Aditya and Gaurav Kumar.

The accused were booked following the complaint of Varinderpal Singh of Jahangirpuri, New Delhi.

Singh told police that the accused took Rs.16.7 lakh from him while promising to send both his daughters, Navneet Kumar and Karishma, abroad. But he neither fulfilled his promise nor returned the money.

Notably, Rikhi is already in police custody in connection with mu...