Man carrying fake passport held

An Indian national, allegedly carrying a fake Canadian work permit was detained at the IGI Airport on Monday. The accused, Uditnarayan Prasad, first went to Dubai on a tourist visa and then managed to go to Iraq with the help of a local agent who later arranged a fake Canadian work permit for him.

Sources said, the man, who is a resident of Kushi Nagar (UP), arrived at the IGI Airport from Dubai. He ran out of luck when he went for immigration clearance where the officials got suspicious of his travel documents. On scrutiny of his passport it was found that the work permit affixed on one of the pages on the passport was a colour photocopy, which was not genuine as there was no UV feature available in it. The accused later revealed that he departed from India for Dubai in December last year on a tourist visa. On reaching Dubai he managed to get an Iraqi work visa through a local agent and went to Iraq in January this year. Later the same agent arranged a fake Canadian work permit for the accused. The police has filed a case of forgery against the accused and is investigating the matter.

In another instance of forgery, a 37-year-old man was arrested along with his wife and three children on January 23 this year for allegedly using fake travel documents and passports to sneak out to London from the New Delhi airport. The man, who belonged to Afghanistan and resided in Delhi, told the police that they were heading to the UK to seek refuge. The accused couple was identified as Suraj Kumar and Sushma Kumar, residents of Tilak Nagar in west Delhi. The three children, aged seven, eight and nine, were travelling with them.