WWICS Celebrates 7th Anniversary:
CHANDIGARH: The Worldwide Immigration Consultancy Services (WWICS), a leading
company specialising
in Canadian immigration and settlement, celebrated its seventh anniversary on
Saturday. Having 33 offices in India and Canada, the company has plans to open
more offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai soon,
a press release of the company said. The company recently opened the Canadian
Institute of Computer Science
and Technology at S. A. S. Nagar in association with the Georgian College of
Canada for certificate courses in computer programme analysis.[The Times of
India : 17-12-2k]
NRI held for duping WWICS
SASNAGAR: - Five days a landed in India on a sponsored trip to work out the
details of on marketing research immigration company, Dr Raja Bikram Pal Lamba
is cooling his heels in police custody. The 58-year-old nonresident Indian from
Canada, driven by his weakness to impress high-profile people in society had
planned to make it big by duping the proprietors of an immigration company,
Worldwide Immigration Consultancy Services.
He made his pay around Rs 5 lakh for his hospitality before his dream was shattered.
Described as a high-profile impostor by the police, his profile was enough to
impress anyone.
A doctorate in English, Dr Lamba, who migrated to Canada last year, convinced
the immigration company to
design their project for marketing at their resort at Karoran village near here.
Everything was going smooth but a slight mistake by the impostor landed him
in police custody. Col B.S. Sandhu, proprietor of the immigration company, said
Dr Lamba had said he was a 1964 batch bureaucrat who sought premature retirement.
His profile included his stint in the Prime Minister's Office and as Chief Secretary
of Madhya Pradesh.
Claiming his connection with chief secretaries of different provinces, he had
claimed to knowing a couple of senior bureaucrats of Punjab. After his claimed
visit Punjab bureaucrat yesterday, who had gone abroad, Col Sandhu got suspicious
and started making queries. All five days after he landed in India on November
10, he stayed in full
luxury paid for by his sponsors. His visiting card read President and CEO of
Toronto Consultancy Group. Questioning by the police revealed another facet
of Dr Lamba's life. After doing his Masters in English in 1964,
he worked as lecturer in DAV College here before moving to Kurukshetra Regional
College. From 1969 to 1982,
he remained at Desh Bandhu College, Delhi.
He worked with different companies from 1983 to 1999 before moving to Canada.
On the basis of a complaint lodged by Mr Devinder Singh Sandhu of the immigration
company, the police has registered a case under Sections 170, 406 and 420 of
the IPC. He was today remanded in one day police custody by the Duty Magistrate,
Kharar.[TheTribune : 16-11-2k ]
Man held for impersonation by WWICS
SAS NAGAR: The Mohali police arrested on Wednesday, a person who was allegedly
impersonating as a retired IAS officer of UP cadre and cheated the director
of a leading immigrations consultancy service of Rs 3.5 lakh Dewinder Sandhu,
Director WWICS, had lodged a complaint that Vikram Pal Sing Lamba (58), posing
as a
retired IAS officer claimed that he had worked in tie Prime Minister's office
during the tenure of lndira Gandhi. He promised Sandhu to get the jobs of WWICS
done on priority basis by using his influence in the bureaucracy and government
circles.
Sandhu claimed that he had spent Rs 3.5 lakh on the accused which included business
class air fare from Canada
to India and the boarding and lodging in Delhi and Chandigarh. The accused has
an Indian passport with landed immigration of Canada a d is believed to be running
a consultancy firm in Canada. The police had registered the complaint on November
14 and arrested the accused on Wednesday. He has been remanded to one day police
custody.[The Tribune: 16-11-2k ]
Dr.Lamba denies cheating WWICS
SASNAGAR: A non-resident Indian, Dr Bikram Singh Lamba, who was arrested by
the local police for allegedly cheating a Chandigarh based immigration company,
today claimed that he had been implicated in the case by the Punjab police at
the behest of the proprietor of the company. He said he had been engaged to
work out details of a project at the resort of the company at Karoran (Nayagaon).
Addressing a press conference here, he alleged that he had been forced to bribe
certain officials so as to undertake the project which allegedly involved converting
reserved forest land into leisure activities. In a written statement submitted
to the National Human Rights Commission, copies of which were given to mediapersons,
he alleged that at the behest of the immigration company, Worldwide Immigration
Consultancy Services, the SAS Nagar police illegally detained him for more than
48 hours and was not allowed to drink water.
He said: "The police officials at the Phase 1 police station told me that I
was lucky that a case of murder was not registered against me". Stating that
he was a successful consultant based at Toronto, he was a qualified person having
reputation in his area of specialisation. A visibly upset Dr Lamba said had
I been a citizen of Canada, the police would not have dared touch me. "Is it
the way the Parkash Singh Badal led-government welcomes the NRIs to seek investment
in Punjab.
I will advise the NRI's to seek protection before visiting Punjab. The Station
House Officer at the police station
who is supposed to act on the NRI help line was harassing me.
I was not allowed to talk to my counsel or my relatives before the FIR against
me was registered. I was harassed
at every step and nobody listened to me. Now I have been granted bail I will
take the case to a logical conclusion" He claimed that he was the only Indian
to be invited by the Prime Minister of Canada as part of the team to attract
investment to that country. "How can a persons like me be humiliated, tortured
and victamised", he questioned.
He claimed the police had kept his passport and harassing me.
He said the Deputy Commissioner, Ropar, had marked an inquiry into the matter
and the Subdivisional Magistrate (SDM) had called him on November 27. The NRI
has also approached the National Human Rights Commission and the Union Home
Ministry. The proprietor of the company, Mr B.S. Sandhu, when contacted, said
Dr Lamba was playing all sorts of tricks to save himself in the case of cheating
registered against him. Mr Sandhu said:
"There is not even an iota of truth in the allegations made by Dr Lamba. He
said Dr Lamba had approached the Canadian High Commission to reach a compromise
with them. He said the challan of the FIR registered against
the NRI was expected to be presented in the court soon." [The Tribune: 24-11-2k
]