He represented the reserved (Scheduled Tribe) Dohad constituency of Gujarat and was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
On 18 April 2007, Babubhai Kitara was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi as he was boarding an Air India flight 187 to Toronto.
Senior police officers told journalists[2] that a deal of Rs 3 million (about USD 70,000) was struck for Babubhai to smuggle Paramjeet and her son to Canada.
Apparently Paramjeet was hoping to join her husband Paramjit Singh, who was living as an illegal immigrant in Canada, according to her mother Mohinder Kaur in the Feroz Sangawal village near Jalandhar .
The fact that even members of parliament with diplomatic privileges can be approached for such purposes is seen as opening a Pandora's box on corruption in the Indian political system.