Alert immigration officials at the Kempegowda International Airport caught a 28-year-old Bangladeshi who went to Dubai in the UAE two years ago using an Indian passport to work as a technician.
The accused was caught by officials when he landed at KIA from Dubai on Thursday and submitted documents for immigration clearance.
A detailed probe revealed that the original name of the accused was Mohammed Moshikul Islam and he is from Bangaldesh. He had crossed the border illegally in 2012 and entered West Bengal. After working as casual labourer for some time, he managed to get a fake birth certificate in Kolkata through a tout, using which he obtained an Indian passport in 2015 in the name of Mondal Mohammed Moshikul.
Using the passport, he went to Dubal to work as technician. He was caught while returning to India on Thursday for a vacation.
He was booked under various sections of the Passport Act and remaded in judicial custody.
Domestic help caught
In another incident, officials nabbed a 45-year-old woman from Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh who was trying to board a flight to Bahrain using a fake passport in the wee hours of Thursday.
The accused, Venpalli Ramannamma, was heading to Bahrain to work as a domestic help.
Ramannamma’s Aadhaar card details were different from her passport details. A detailed inquiry led her to confess to the crime.
According to officials, she was a class II dropout but got the passport through a tout in 2005 by claiming to be Desai Raa Devi from Hyderabad.
Using the fake passport, Ramannamma obtained a work permit and went to Kuwait to work as a domestic help . In 2015, she had renewed her passport at the Indian embassy in Kuwait. Recently, she had returned to India on a vacation.