Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing, Odisha, has arrested one person from Mumbai in connection with Rs 1.2 crore Haj pilgrimage fraud. The accused has been identified as Nabeel Abdul Mubin Shaikh.
He was nabbed on September 27 and will be produced in a court in Balasore on September 30 after being brought to Bhubaneswar on a transit remand. According to an EOW release, the case pertains to a complaint lodged by Mir Khursid of Kazimahala of Dhamnagar in Bhadrak district against the proprietors of ‘Al-Adam Tour & Travels’ – Firdos Bi Abdul Mubin Shaikh, her son Nabeel Abdul Mubin Shaikh and daughter Saima Anjum Shaikh, – and Md Bismillah Shaikh of AlIzma Tours & Travels of Vikhroli Kurla in West Mumbai for allegedly collecting cash of Rs 45,786 and Rs 50,786 from 189 people totalling to Rs 1.2 crores from 2019-2023, to arrange for a pilgrimage to Saudi Arab on the eve of Umrah.
“Proprietors neither took the prospective pilgrims on pilgrimage nor did they refund the amount collected from them,” the EOW said. Investigation revealed that proprietors of Al-Adam Tour & Travel Agency floated advertisements on social media apart from distributing leaflets with lucrative packages, contact details and induced Muslim devotees to avail the opportunity under two of their tour packages of Rs.45,786 and Rs.
50,786 per individual pilgrim for travelling to Mecca-Madina, during 2019-2023. “They assured the pilgrims of cheap, secured and safe pilgrimage. Even prior to that, the .
