‘To take naive people for a ride’: SC denied anticipatory bail to the accused in the ‘Dunkle Route’ illegal immigration case. Bharat News

Through ‘Dunky Marg’, a person accused of being part of a racket for the facility of illegal immigration, refusing to grant anticipatory bail and cheating a resident of Haryana, who wanted to go to the United States, the Supreme Court on Monday said that it is because of people like him that Indian passports are devalued.

A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Manmohan rejected the accused Om Prakash’s anticipatory bail argument and commented orally, “Indian passports are devalued because of people like you.”

The bench told the lawyer appearing for the appellant, “Bhola poor people, you are taking them for a ride.”

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Rejecting the petition, the court said, “We have no good reason to entertain this anticipatory bail application.” The lawyer pressured for relief, but the court said, “These are very serious allegations.”

The FIR was lodged on a complaint by a person named Raja who wanted to settle abroad. In May 2024, one of the accused in the case, Surinder, who is working as an agent, allegedly assured him that he would send him to America through legitimate means, to a tune of Rs 43 lakh to his expense. The king’s family agreed and allegedly gave Surinder Rs 3 lakh as advance.

“Accused Surinder sent him to Dubai on 23.07.2024. Through accused Surinder’s man, he was again sent from Dubai to different countries and then Panama’s forests and then Mexico. On 01.02.2025, Donkers/agents surpassed the American Boarder,” In the middle of his (king’s) father, ” A cash amount of Rs 22,00,000/- was taken. “

After the FIR was registered, the investigation started. An alleged agent, Om Prakash, fear of arrest, transferred an application seeking pre-Giraftari bail to Additional Sessions Judge, Pinipat, but was rejected on 21 March this year.

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Prakash then approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court, stating that he was falsely implicated in the case. Prakash argued that according to cedar, it was co-composed, Surinder, and not the one who inspired the complainant and arranged for him to go abroad.

On 9 April, the High Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea. The High Court said, “The petitioner has criminal entranceants as he is involved in another case of equal nature. The allegations make a prima facie case for commissioning of crime against the petitioner. The petitioner needs to work as a petitioner to work as a petitioner.

Anantakrishnan ji is a senior assistant editor with the Indian Express. He has been in the fray for more than 23 years, kicking his journalism career as a freelancer with a byline in the Hindu in the late nineties. Graduate in the law, he practiced in the District Judiciary in Kerala for almost two years before switching to journalism. His first permanent assignment was with the Press Trust of India in Delhi, where he was assigned to cover the lower courts and various commissions of investigation. He reported from the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India during his first term with the Indian Express in 2005-2006. Currently, in his second term with the Indian Express, he reports from the Supreme Court and writes on topics related to the administration of law and justice. Legal reporting is their creation, although he also has a widespread experience in political and community reporting, a decade spent a decade as the Kerala State Correspondent, Times of India and Telegraph. He is a sticker for facts and there are many impressive stories for his credit. … read more

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