Ravi from Haryana faced a 220-day distressing journey after paying around Rs 35 lakh to an unauthorized travel agent to reach the US. Of this, Rs 6 lakh was forked out by his family after the 26-year-old was starved in the jungles of Panama and allegedly taken hostage. Ravi’s brother Amit said the agent had promised to send his sibling to the US legally for Rs 29 lakh. The family of Ravi, who had dropped out of his BA, named three agents involved behind his ordeal – Deepak Malik, Rajat Mor and Manish Pandit. Two more young men from Jind, Nishant and Shubham, are expected to be sent back from the US soon. Police claimed they had no complaint yet. \”If that is done, action will be taken,\” said a cop. ‘Ravi was not given food for days and spent five-six months facing numerous difficulties,’ said Amit. ‘Our father sold our farmland and took out a loan to raise the money. This was then given to the agent,\” Amit said.
