UK NRI woman was jailed for 10 years for sham marriage racket

UK, APRIL 26, 2005

A woman who made a fortune through an immigration racket in which vulnerable British women were conned into marrying Indian men who wanted to live in Britain was jailed for 10 years in London.

Jaswinder Gill, who police believe made up to a million pounds (1.47 million euros, 1.9 million dollars) from the scam, was branded a "complete and total alien to the truth" by the trial judge.

Gill's method of persuading the women to take part in the bogus marriages ranged from being charming to being "vile", Judge Sam Kathkuda told Isleworth Crown Court.

The court had been told how Gill was paid up to 14,000 pounds a time to find brides for Indian men who wanted to use the marriage as a passport to Britain.

The "manipulative" Gill told a series of women that they would be taken to India to work as models or in the beauty trade, but once there they were persuaded to take part in weddings, prosecutors said.

Gill took one woman who was a heroin addict to India and paid her to act as a bride in what she claimed was a mock ceremony for a modelling shoot, before abandoning her, forcing the women's parents to travel from Britain to collect her.

The 42-year-old fraudster denied the allegations, but was found guilty last month on charges related to illegal immigration and plotting to pervert the course of justice.

The racket had just one purpose, the judge said, "That was to obtain vast amounts of money." "One only has to look at the amounts that were referred to in court to realise the significance of the financial gain," he said, adding that Gill had later tried to bribe witnesses into withdrawing their testimony.

Gill's husband was jailed for six years after admitting two charges, while two other accomplices were also imprisoned. (AP)

NRI, Jaswinder accused of marrying 23 men in India

UK, Feb 01, 2004

NRI , Jaswinder Kaur from Glasgow has been accused of marrying 23 men, getting engaged to 12 others and collected £40,000. Jaswinder promised to give them visas by sponsering thru marriage. She was detained in India is accused of defrauding a string of husbands and fiancés.

Punjab state police said that Jaswinder Kaur has married twice and become engaged on two other occasions, promising to get her suitors visas to emigrate to the United Kingdom. She admited to marrying two men, Harbans Lal, whom she married in Germany, and Harpal Singh, whom she married last year in Punjab after divorced Harbans.

She told that she married just one other man 26-year-old Harpal Singh while in India. He was confronting her outside Nawanshahr's court on Saturday. He became suspicious of her after she began receiving phone calls from other men day and night. Harpal went to police after he found a suitcase containing 25 Indian passports in her room.

Mr. Surjeet Singh and Sukhdev Singh claimed that they got engaged to be married to her on consecutive days in November last year. Both say they have the photographs and engagement videos to prove it

Jaswinder told police that her parents will repay the money but I have no regrets. She admitted that she had deceived some of the men but she claimed complete strangers were approaching police to say they had lost money to her.

Her parents are too ashamed to come back to the town they emigrated from 30 years ago. Relatives of Jaswinder in India have also been arrested.

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