Ludhiana, May 23 -- Police have booked a Canada-based NRI and his father for allegedly duping a Congress leader of Rs.7 lakh on the pretext of securing a transportation tender of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) in Jalalabad.

The accused were identified as Anmol Ratan Singh, currently residing in Canada, and his father Balkarn Singh Bhatti, a resident of Phase 7, Mohali.

The FIR was registered on the complaint of Manveer Singh Dhaliwal of Kasabad village in Ludhiana, who serves as co-ordinator of Punjab Youth Congress.

According to the complainant, he had known Anmol for nearly a decade. Manveer alleged that in 2018, when he was planning to start a business after completing college, Anmol approached him claiming that one of his clos...