Mehsana: Over a month after four members of a family from Mehsana district died while trying to cross into the US from Canada, the Mehsana police have lodged an FIR against three agents allegedly involved in the illegal immigration racket, an official said on Thursday.

As per the FIR, the three agents allegedly took Rs 60 lakh from the kin of the deceased here and compelled the four victims to take a boat ride to cross the St Lawrence river on the US-Canada border amid turbulent weather, which ended in a tragedy as the boat eventually capsized, Mehsana’s Vasai police station inspector J S Rabari said.

The deceased – Pravinbhai Chaudhary (50), his wife Daksha (45), their son Meet (20) and daughter Vidhi (24) – were natives of Manekpura-Dabhal village in Vijapur taluka of Mehsana where Chaudhary used to do farming, as per the FIR. DeshGujarat