Visa racket: Cop, travel agent held
TNN | Mar 29, 2019, 07:47 IST
Representative imageHYDERABAD: The Cyberabad police arrested two people including an immigration officer on Thursday within days of busting an international human trafficking racket.
A total of 18 persons, including two employees of different airlines and a constable, were taken into custody on March 20. This was after 70 people attempted to go to Kuwait with tampered visas.
Police nabbed Mohammed Manzoor Khan, 49, an immigration officer and head constable in Mahbubnagar district and Penigilapati Anjaneyulu Naidu, 52, a travel agent from Mumbai.
According to the police, Manzoor was in central deputation from Mahbubnagar police to the Bureau of immigration. The accused and his associate had taken huge sums of money to help foreign travellers get visas without proper documents for over two years.
Naidu on the other hand was running a Protector of Emigrants (POE) registered licensed travel agency, Sairam Travels, in Mumbai. According to the police, the accused would courier passports and entry visas to the Kuwaiti Embassy in Mumbai and get passports stamped without POE clearance. These passports would then be sent back to Hyderabad. Police have seized 10 Indian passports from their possession.
After the police busted the fake passport and visa racket, DCP Shamshabad held a meeting at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport with managers of all airlines that have international flights.
N Prakash Reddy, DCP, addressed the meeting and gave information about the recent arrests where two employees of different airlines were also nabbed.
A total of 18 persons, including two employees of different airlines and a constable, were taken into custody on March 20. This was after 70 people attempted to go to Kuwait with tampered visas.
Police nabbed Mohammed Manzoor Khan, 49, an immigration officer and head constable in Mahbubnagar district and Penigilapati Anjaneyulu Naidu, 52, a travel agent from Mumbai.
According to the police, Manzoor was in central deputation from Mahbubnagar police to the Bureau of immigration. The accused and his associate had taken huge sums of money to help foreign travellers get visas without proper documents for over two years.
Naidu on the other hand was running a Protector of Emigrants (POE) registered licensed travel agency, Sairam Travels, in Mumbai. According to the police, the accused would courier passports and entry visas to the Kuwaiti Embassy in Mumbai and get passports stamped without POE clearance. These passports would then be sent back to Hyderabad. Police have seized 10 Indian passports from their possession.
After the police busted the fake passport and visa racket, DCP Shamshabad held a meeting at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport with managers of all airlines that have international flights.
N Prakash Reddy, DCP, addressed the meeting and gave information about the recent arrests where two employees of different airlines were also nabbed.
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