Nepali woman with Indian passport held at Bengaluru airport
Bengaluru: A 26-year-old woman from Nepal, attempting to fly to Hong Kong from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) using an Indian passport, was caught by immigration officials at Terminal 2.
The accused, Sushmita Rai, is a resident of Haryana and native of Nepal. She booked a ticket on Cathay Pacific flight CX 624 and had an employment visa.
According to the complaint filed by immigration officer Jubin Johnson Vaidyan with KIA police on June 11, Sushmita came to T2 to take the flight scheduled at 1.20am. She reported to the departure immigration wing counter no. 18 around 9.20pm and produced her flight ticket, employment visa for Hong Kong and Indian passport (no.
W8594425).
When the immigration officer asked for identification documents, she gave her PAN card and showed Nepal national ID proof on her mobile phone. The officer noted that despite being a Nepal national, she had managed to get an Indian passport and employment visa. She was subjected to interrogation and handed over to KIA police. A senior police officer said Sushmita had come to Bengaluru to her sister's house and stayed there for a few days.
She was residing in Haryana for the last two years.
Police found an Aadhaar card and voter ID with Sushmita along with the passport. She confessed to have got them in West Bengal, and using those documents she got the passport through an agent.
Sushmita was arrested under BNS Sections 336 (forgery), 340 (forged document or electronic record and using it as genuine), and under the Passport Act. She claimed she doesn't remember the agent's name who got her ID proofs and passport.
Police said they often catch Nepali nationals with Indian ID proofs at the airport while trying to fly abroad. A man working as a security guard at the tahsildar's office in Yelahanka, identified as Rames Bhadur Bandari, was caught by immigration officials two weeks ago when he was trying to fly to Nepal. He had an Indian voter ID.
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