Former French embassy staff, kin charged in visa fraud case
The CBI is on the lookout for Shokeen, who is understood to have fled the country.
A CBI spokesperson said: 'We have filed a chargesheet against Shubham Shokeen, his wife Aarti Choudhary, his father Samunder Singh and his brother Abhishek Shokeen, two visa agents: Balwinder Singh Bartia and Pritpal Singh, and two middlemen: Jashandeep Singh Sidhu and Bhawan Shokeen, before the CBI court in New Delhi.'
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