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Bengaluru police arrest 5 Sri Lankan nationals, bust gang providing fake passports

November 13, 2022No Comments3 Mins Read
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The Bengaluru Metropolis Police has busted a gang which offered Indian passports to 5 folks from Sri Lanka who had been seeking to transfer to the Center East seeking jobs.

The police stated that the Sri Lankan nationals had been able to pay anyplace between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1,50,000 for the faux passports.

On Wednesday, metropolis police commissioner Prathap Reddy stated that the arrested Sri Lankan nationals had been recognized as Selvi S Ravi Kumar, Manivelu, Shiju, Nirosha and Vishal Narayan. He added that those that helped them get the faux passports included Ameen Sait and Rakesh H, residents of Bengaluru, and HU Hyder and Mohammed Nawal, residents of Mangaluru. The probe revealed that Sait is alleged to be the kingpin of the racket and one other accused, Sadiq Pasha, is presently absconding, the police knowledgeable.

In keeping with police officers, the incident got here to gentle on October 19 when Pension Mohalla police of Hassan city approached Basavanagudi police searching for details about Sadique Pasha, who was needed in additional than 36 housebreaking circumstances. Pasha had utilized for a passport in 2020 below the title of Mohammed Karim.

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The probe revealed that Karim, whose actual title is Pasha, had managed to clear police verification on December 11, 2020, and police constable Madhusudhan J had visited his home. Karim was current however the cops didn’t suspect that he had any felony report. Sait, Hyder and Nawal, who had been additionally there, gave their statements to assist the verification course of which is a part of the process. After getting cleared, Karim bought his passport and left the nation.

In keeping with police sources, the passport aspirant should present citizenship id proofs and likewise present proof that he lived in the identical place for greater than three years and the neighbours should give them assent for a similar. The racket got here to the fore when the police went forward and retrieved details about those that posed as Pasha’s neighbours.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (south), Krishnakanth P, who had shaped a particular group, managed to arrest Sait, Nawal and Rakesh. Through the probe, the police discovered that a few of the Sri Lankan nationals, who arrived in India after protests over the financial disaster began, had approached Sait to get passports finished. Sait charged them someplace between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1,50,000 to get it finished. He solid the paperwork and faked in the course of the verification course of to get them cleared, the Deputy Commissioner of Police added.

The Sri Lankan nationals had been hoping to fly to gulf nations to get jobs utilizing their Indian identities.  The police suspect that the gang has managed to get at the least 20 passports utilizing faux and solid paperwork.

After the fraud got here to gentle, the police have additionally suspended two police constables — Madhusudhan and Vasanth — over dereliction of responsibility and negligence and a departmental inquiry is pending.



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