2 men jailed for smuggling 7 Indian migrants in car boots into UK

2 men jailed for smuggling 7 Indian migrants in car boots into UK

London, Jul 14 (PTI) Two British Indian men have been sentenced to a total of over six years’ imprisonment for smuggling seven Indian migrants, including women and children, into the UK in the boots of two cars.

Palvinder Singh Phull, 48, was handed a three and half years’ sentence for assisting unlawful immigration and co-accused Harjit Singh Dhaliwal, 45, was jailed for three years and two months on the same charge at Canterbury Crown Court in south-east England on Thursday.

Both the Londoners had pleaded guilty to assisting unlawful immigration in a case dating back five years.