Indirapuram: Travel agency cheated by taking money for Thailand tour

Indirapuram: Tanuj Goyal, a private company employee living in Ramprastha Green Society of Vaishali, has filed a fraud case of Rs 3.20 lakh against Prerna Tour and Travels, Sonipat. The travel company booked his tour package to Phuket, a tourist city in Thailand, took the money and cancelled the package and booking a few days later without informing him. The matter is of December 2024, since then the company owner has neither returned the money nor given another tour package. The police have registered a case against the travel company owner Arun Kumar and employee Nischal Khanna and started investigation.

Tanuj Goyal told that he had planned to go on a trip with eight people including family and friends. On November 5, 2024, he had booked a five-day and six-night tour package to Phuket from Prerna Tour and Travels Company. For this, he had paid Rs 3.20 lakh in different bank accounts of the company. Told that his journey was to start on December 28, 2024. It is alleged that the travel company cancelled their tour package about four-five days before the start of the trip. After this, for five months, Arun Kumar and Nischal Khanna kept procrastinating to return the money. In between, they also gave cheques twice but they also bounced in the bank.

It is also alleged that the company owner Arun Kumar had told about cancelling the package citing internal problems of the company. Fearing that neither the money nor the tour package would be received, he had lodged a complaint in the police station on May 13. In the complaint, Tanuj Goyal has also alleged that the travel company has cheated about 40-50 other people like him in a similar way. ACP Indirapuram Abhishek Srivastava said that after initial investigation of the case, a case has been registered. Efforts are being made to contact the accused.