Haryana Police to launch awareness campaign on 'kabootarbaazi'

Haryana Police will launch an awareness campaign from May 15 to 31 against agents who dupe people on pretext of sending them abroad (locally called kabootarbaazi), Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Muhammad Akil said today.
The main aim of the campaign is to make people aware and educated about the modus-operandi being adopted by agents, groups and middlemen who dupe people on the pretext of sending abroad, especially to Gulf countries, Canada, Europe, among others, he said.
He said the campaign would be initially launched for two weeks, but depending on its success and as per requirement, it could be re-launched any time in future.

The campaign would also be launched on social media to make it more effective, the ADGP said, adding in any incident of kabootarbazi, a case would be registered and pursued with intensive probe. If there would a need to collect evidences in the case, the culprit would be arrested and interrogated, he added.
He said the belt of north Haryana from Yamunanagar to Sirsa, including the areas of Kurukshetra, Ambala, Panchkula, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar and Fatehabad, are most affected from kabootarbazi.
Apart from Haryana, he said, there are groups from outside whose agents are operating in the state and duping people.

He said of late cases from Uttar Pradesh have also come to the fore, with one each from Meerut and Muzaffarnagar being brought to the notice of Haryana Police.