‘Gujarat people smuggler crushes rivals, their clients’

AHMEDABAD: When it comes to eliminating the competition, agents Bharat alias Bobby Patel and Guramrit alias Pablo Singh will allegedly do anything to ensure they rule the illegal immigration business.
Investigators probing human smuggling rackets in Gujarat revealed that the two men not only get other illegal agents and their clients arrested and thrown in jail, but also shoot videos of their torture and share them online as a warning to anyone else who tries to muscle in on their ‘dhandho’.
Gujarat police officers told TOI that they have received video evidence showing Bobby and Pablo’s goons subjecting the clients of other agents to inhuman treatment.
Usually, people from Punjab and Gujarat harbour dreams of settling in the US and Canada and are ready to do anything to fulfil this desire. “Cashing on this, Bobby from Dingucha village in Gandhinagar district of Gujarat and Pablo from Jalandhar in Punjab have set up a major migrant smuggling network that spreads from India to the US through Turkey and Mexico,” said a senior police officer.
He added, “They take care of rival agents by tipping off the police, usually in Delhi, about the competitors as well as their clients. A man from Kalol had used one of their rivals to leave the country illegally last October. However, they tipped off the Delhi police who arrested the man under human smuggling charges. The man was sent to Tihar jail where Pablo’s men were present. We have a video showing the goons thrashing the Kalol resident and making him clean human excreta using his hands,” said the police officer, privy to the development.
Revealing more about the nexus, a senior Gujarat police officer said, “Bobby went to the US and began smuggling migrants in 1997. He has been booked under many human trafficking cases including one in Kolkata, six in Delhi and one in Mumbai. Around two years ago, he met Pablo, who had shifted his base to Rajouri Garden area in Delhi and built a rapport with him. Pablo, who also oversees the human smuggling network run by agent Charanjeet Singh, extended his protection and help to Bobby.”
The cops firmly believe that the Dingucha kingpin and Pablo were responsible for sending the family of Jagdish Patel from the Gandhinagar village on an illegal journey during which they froze to death on January 16.