India, June 10 -- A 29-year-old agent from Punjab was arrested by the Delhi Police's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) unit for allegedly orchestrating the illegal travel of a 21-year-old man to the United States through a labyrinthine 'donkey route' spanning Kenya, Turkey, Spain, and Mexico.

The passenger, Navjot Singh from Mansa, who had paid Rs.41 lakh to the accused agent Jagjeet Singh alias Jassa, was recently deported from the US after spending five months at a detention centre there. He was arrested in Delhi last week for allegedly cheating Indian immigration by using a tampered passport.

Additional commissioner of police (IGI Airport) Usha Rangnani said Singh was deported in the early hours of June 4. During immigration...