Tour operator held for selling fake LTC packages

NEW DELHI: The director of a fake tour company, who duped central government employees on pretext of providing cheap LTC travel packages, has been arrested.
Aftab Ahmed Siddiqui (24) alias Rajeev Kumar has a bachelors degree in computer applications and four years experience of working in a travel company. He recently suffered losses in the stock market and scouted for mail ids on government websites.
Kumar has duped close to 50 people and landed in the police dragnet after a senior programmer of Jamia Millia University and a government official from south Delhi both complained of having been cheated. They lost Rs 65,000 and Rs 1.8 lakh, respectively.
"On March 5, a complaint was received from the university programmer, Israr Ahmed, who said he had received an e-mail from one Rajeev Kumar who claimed to be the director of Wind Holiday Tours on January 22 regarding a cheap LTC package. He paid Rs 65,000 in two instalments. Kumar delivered an Air India flight ticket to Israr three days after payment," DCP (Central) Alok Kumar said.
Siddiqui signed the receipts as Rajeev Kumar. On February 20, Ahmed checked the status of his tickets which read cancelled. Ahmed then informed the police.
"We registered a case," Kumar said. Analysis of data of the number from which the calls were made showed Aftab's last location in Madanpur Dabas and Narela. Door-to-door verification of these areas were carried out using sketches. They came to know that Kumar was an alias and he functioned from West Delhi. A team laid a trap and nabbed him after a chase.