Reply To:
Name - Reply Comment
Last Updated : 2024-04-24 11:37:00
Indian Police have busted a fake passport racket in Tamil Nadu, which helped Sri Lankan nationals fly abroad from the city as Indian citizens, the PTI reported.
Two Sri Lankans, including a 38-year-old woman, suspected to be part of the racket, have been arrested, police said.
Earlier, the crime branch wing had arrested 11 people, including a travel agent, for allegedly preparing fake passports by collecting amounts of up to Rs 10 lakh from Sri Lankan nationals.
Police said investigations revealed that the woman had come to Tamil Nadu from the island nation on a tourist visa some time back and had been staying here well past its expiry date.
She had sought the help of the travel agent, who prepared a fake passport for her.
Her accomplice, who also possessed a Sri Lankan passport, managed to get a fake Aadhar card for her, police said.
The woman and her accomplice were arrested from a house in the city on Friday and produced before a local court, which later sent them to Puzhal central prison.
Describing the modus operandi, police said the travel agent used to prepare fake Indian passports for Sri Lankan nationals, based on the information he received from his aide in Colombo.
The man, with the help of his gang, collected expired passports from people of economically weaker sections and sold them to Sri Lankan nationals as valid Indian passports for a monetary consideration.
Police also recovered 77 Indian passports, 12 Sri Lankan passports and machines used to prepare them and cash of Rs 85,000.
Tamil Sunday, 15 July 2018 10:23 AM
While educated and respectful Sri Lankan Tamils are financially just surviving, these uneducated Tamils who get into these types of crimes are millionaires in Britain,Europe,and Canada.
Arnold Sunday, 15 July 2018 04:14 PM
This means the these people have no way of making a living here.
Commenter Sunday, 15 July 2018 08:28 PM
no wonder other countries put strict rules on sri lankan passport holders. activities like this will make it worse and honest travelers will get effected by the action of these culprits. it will be better if we countries can blacklist these people and share that details with other countries. so other countries will also know they are culprits before they take them in.
Add comment
Comments will be edited (grammar, spelling and slang) and authorized at the discretion of Daily Mirror online. The website also has the right not to publish selected comments.
Reply To:
Name - Reply Comment
US authorities are currently reviewing the manifest of every cargo aboard MV
On March 26, a couple arriving from Thailand was arrested with 88 live animal
According to villagers from Naula-Moragolla out of 105 families 80 can afford
Is the situation in Sri Lanka so grim that locals harbour hope that they coul