{"id":79288,"date":"2018-07-14T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T23:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79288"},"modified":"2018-07-14T16:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T23:32:45","slug":"fake-passport-racket-helping-sri-lankans-fly-abroad-as-indians-busted-in-tn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/14\/fake-passport-racket-helping-sri-lankans-fly-abroad-as-indians-busted-in-tn\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake passport racket helping Sri Lankans fly abroad as Indians busted in TN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Asian Age<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Two Sri Lankans, including a 38-year-old woman, suspected to be part of the racket, have been arrested, police said<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chennai:<\/strong>\u00a0Police have busted a fake passport racket in Tamil Nadu, which helped Sri Lankan nationals fly abroad from the city as Indian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Two Sri Lankans, including a 38-year-old woman, suspected to be part of the racket, have been arrested, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the crime branch wing had arrested 11 people, including a travel agent, for allegedly preparing fake passports by collecting amounts of up to Rs 10 lakh from Sri Lankan nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Police said investigations revealed that the woman had come to Tamil Nadu from the island nation on a tourist visa some time back and had been staying here well past its expiry date.<\/p>\n<p>She had sought the help of the travel agent, who prepared a fake passport for her.<\/p>\n<p>Her accomplice, who also possessed a Sri Lankan passport, managed to get a fake Aadhar card for her, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman and her accomplice were arrested from a house in the city on Friday and produced before a local court, which later sent them to Puzhal central prison.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the modus operandi, police said the travel agent used to prepare fake Indian passports for Sri Lankan nationals, based on the information he received from his aide in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>The man, with the help of his gang, collected expired passports from people of economically weaker sections and sold them to Sri Lankan nationals as valid Indian passports for a monetary consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Police also recovered 77 Indian passports, 12 Sri Lankan passports and machines used to prepare them and cash of Rs 85,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Asian Age Two Sri Lankans, including a 38-year-old woman, suspected to be part of the racket, have been arrested, police said Chennai:\u00a0Police have busted a fake passport racket in Tamil Nadu, which helped Sri Lankan nationals fly abroad from the city as Indian citizens. Two Sri Lankans, including a 38-year-old woman, suspected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}