Mumbai: A 32-year-old man, initially from Gujarat, has been arrested in Mumbai for allegedly travelling to a few international locations within the final 5 years utilizing a bogus passport.
The accused has been recognized as Mujib Hussain Kazi, a local of the Kheda district in Gujarat.
After his arrest, Kazi informed the police that he went to the UK in 2010 on a scholar visa and had been staying in addition to working there illegally lengthy after the visa expired. “In 2018, he managed to go to Portugal, the place he obtained the passport by means of an agent. Utilizing this passport, he has obtained an Indian entry visa and has visited the nation at the least thrice, and has additionally gone to France. He got here to Mumbai on Wednesday on a flight that left from Paris and got here through Doha,” stated an officer with the Sahar police station.
Kazi landed on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Worldwide Airport at 1.45 pm on Wednesday and was detained by immigration officers, as his passport was flagged.
Kazi submitted his Portuguese passport, which recognized him as Sultan Fakir Mohammed, to the immigration officer. On getting into the passport quantity within the system, the officer discovered that there was a glance out round issued in opposition to Kazi by the Portuguese authorities, stated a police officer. The round said that the topic was an imposter utilizing an assumed id, and had obtained the passport fraudulently in 2018.
When the police and immigration authorities checked his journey information, they discovered that he had made one journey to India every in 2019, 2020 and 2022 and gone again to London utilizing the identical passport.
“We will probably be sending official requests through diplomatic channels to the involved authorities in Portugal, UK in addition to France to seek out out extra about how he managed to fly below the radar for 5 years. The method will probably be initiated below provisions of Mutual Authorized Settlement Treaties and will probably be executed by means of the Central Bureau of Investigation. We’re in contact with the Portuguese authorities,” the officer stated.
Kazi has been booked for dishonest, forgery and dishonest use of a cast doc as real below related sections of the Indian Penal Code, in addition to for furnishing false info to acquire a passport, below the Passport Act, 1937.
