hyderabad the travel agents who cheated 65 christian pilgrims and left them stranded in cairo for a few days were arrested by the north zone police on friday deputy commissioner of police north zone ch srikanth said out of the 65 pilgrims 49 were clients of assets tours and travels which belongs to francis xavier while the remaining who were from vijayawada were customers of travel agent cum guide prashanth chowdary police said xavier collected money ranging from rs 55000 to rs 70000 from each pilgrim but did not arrange for their visa and other travel documents necessary for travel to countries like egypt israel and jordan prashanth claims that xavier was supposed to send the money to him and that he did not but during investigation we found that prashanth was equally liable since he did not make any arrangements for his 16 customers srikanth said police said that the accused claimed that they have been in the business of sending the pilgrims to these countries from the past eight years after their arrest gopalpuram police have filed a petition in the criminal court seeking the custody of the two accused moves are on to freeze their bank accounts the cops said