Punjab cop's son paid Rs 80L to reach US

A married couple who spent Rs 80 lakh to reach the US was arrested on arrival and deported. They landed in Amritsar Saturday night on the second US deportation flight and reached their native place at Lalru in Punjab's Mohali district on Sunday.

Gurpreet Singh (30) and Amanpreet Kaur (26) got married a year-and-a-half ago, left the country soon after and kept wandering from one country to the other for nine months before American immigration agents arrested them as soon as they entered that country. Gurpreet's father Jaswinder Singh is a Punjab cop. Gurpreet and Amanpreet, who hails from Haryana's Shahzadpur, are the second couple from Mohali to have been deported from the US.

The couple are traumatised and unwilling to reveal details of their nine-month-long route to the US. The family is now worried how to get Rs 80 lakh, paid to an agent in Haryana, back.