Immigration officers Thursday caught six Andhra Pradesh-based girls on the Mumbai Worldwide Airport for allegedly attempting to fly to Muscat by concealing their particulars. The authorities have discovered that the small print on their passport had been erased in order that the ladies might be despatched overseas on vacationer visas.
Primarily based on the criticism of immigration officers, the Sahar police arrested Venkata Laxmi Ullithula, 30, Khadeerunnisa Shaikh, 32, Munemma Sunkara, 37, Rubina Syed, 33, Kumari Tellakula, 33, and Kalyani Engisetti, 32.
In keeping with the police, the six girls had been planning to journey by Air India flight IX-235 to Muscat. Immigration officers raised suspicion because the passports of the ladies had been discovered tampered with. They stated that on sure pages of the passports, some stamps had been forcefully erased.
Through the preliminary inquiry, it was revealed that each one six girls hail from completely different locations in Andhra Pradesh and needed to journey to Kuwait to get housemaid jobs. An agent is learnt to have helped them get an employment visa in Kuwait.
Nevertheless, as POE (Protector of Emigrants) clearance was obligatory to go to Kuwait as their passports had been of ECR (Emigration Examine Required) standing, they sought assist from the agent once more.
“The ladies stated that the agent, utilizing some chemical substances, erased Kuwait’s visa stamps from their passports after which helped them get vacationer visas and flight tickets to Muscat. From Muscat, they deliberate to go to Kuwait,” the complainant immigration officer acknowledged within the FIR.
“As a consequence of some causes, the accused girls needed to bypass the POE clearance and, with the assistance of the agent, erased Kuwait’s employment visa stamps from their passports and tried to journey utilizing the identical ‘tampered passport’; therefore, they’ve been booked underneath related sections of the Passport Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for dishonest and forgery,” stated a police sub-inspector from Sahar police station.
The ladies had been subsequently produced earlier than the court docket. They had been despatched to judicial custody, and are at the moment lodged within the Byculla girls’s jail.
