Gujarat: Man cheats woman with visa trick

AHMEDABAD: A Gandhinagar resident filed a police complaint against the family members of a man who died during mucormycosis treatment after he neither cured her husband of his illness nor got Canada visas for her children as promised.
Usha Soni, 46, a resident of Vedika Valley Society in Randesan, had paid accused Kanti Parmar Rs 27 lakh for the purpose.In her complaint with Infocity police, she said that she met Parmar in 2019 during a visit to a temple in Gandhinagar. Parmar had introduced himself as a tantrik. She told him that her husband had been bedridden since an accident in 2011. He told her that he could perform some rituals and cure him completely.
Parmar later made several visits to her house on the pretext of treating her husband. In August 2019, she told him that she wanted to send her children Jenil and Urvi to Canada for higher studies. On hearing this, he told her that he was also a visa agent and could help her if she paid Rs 27 lakh.
He then introduced Soni to his son Jigar Parmar and wife Shelvi and told her that they assisted him in the visa-related work. Convinced, she paid Rs 27 lakh in instalments to Parmar between October 2019 and March 2020.
However, following the Covid-19 outbreak, Usha asked Parmar to suspend the visa process and return the money. But Parmar told her that he could not provide the money as he had given it to a needy person. She accused Parmar of sending her son Jigar to London in October 2020 using her money. In April 2021, Parmar was infected with Covid-19 and later diagnosed with mucormycosis. On December 10, Parmar died following a heart attack during the treatment. Recently, when Soni called up Jigar, demanding her money back, Shelvi allegedly threatened her with dire consequences if she called up again. So, Soni approached Infocity police and filed a complaint of breach of trust, cheating, criminal intimidation and abetment against Jigar and Shelvi Parmar.