Jalandhar, June 26 -- Over two years after duping hundreds of Indian students by giving them fake admission offer letters, the Jalandhar commissionerate police arrested wanted travel agent Brijesh Mishra from Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, New Delhi. Jalandhar-based Mishra, against whom 20 FIRs were at multiple police stations across Punjab, fled from India before the scandal came to fore in March 2023. On June 23, 2023, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) apprehended Mishra while he was trying to sneak into the country illegally but he was set free after a few months. Jalandhar's additional deputy commissioner of police Harinder Singh Gill said the police had already issued a look out circular (LOC) against Mishra, who belongs to Thalwada in Darbhanga, Bihar, after he was found to be the kingpin of the scam. "On June 24, the airport security detained Mishra on the basis of the LOC and alerted Jalandhar police following which a special team was rushed to New Delhi for his formal custody," the ADCP said. Mishra was produced in a local court, which remanded him into seven-day police custody, he added. "A total of nine FIRs were registered against Mishra in Jalandhar's division number 6 police station on the complaints of families of students, who were cheated on the name of fake offer letters," Gill said. In March 2023, Nearly 700 students were issued deportation notices by the CBSA over fraudulent offer letters that had been provided to them by Mishra while processing their study visas. Even as the Canadian immigration ministry announced to freeze the deportation notices to the students, terming them "victims of fraud" the deportation issue led to widespread protests in Canada by Indian students. Mishra continued to dupe multiple Canada aspirants and their families until the students who had arrived in the country in 2016 applied for permanent residency and found out that their documents were fake. Following the scam, Punjab Police registered 20-odd first information reports (FIRs) against Mishra and his accomplices from March to June 2023....