Emigrants racket busted: 5 held

HYDERABAD: The Cyberabad police and Bureau of Immigration sleuths busted a faux Protector of Emigrants (POE) paperwork racket at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport and arrested three individuals. In every other case involving a task aspirant from Maharashtra, agents from East Godavari are learnt to have duped him through providing a tourist visa as a substitute of a piece visa. Two agents have been arrested in this case.

During scrutiny of the paperwork of those heading to Gulf nations, the sleuths found that some individuals from East Godavari and Kadapa districts in neighboring Andhra Pradesh are producing faux POE paperwork. The Cyberabad police arrested three individuals in this case. Shamshabad deputy commissioner of police PV Padmaja said on Thursday that two separate instances had been booked underneath cheating and forgery sections of the IPC in accordance with a complaint lodged through BoI and the victims.

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The immigration fraud rackets operating without detection must serve as an eye-opener for law-enforcing authorities they usually should step up checks as the federal government has eased the method of shopping passports and made go back and forth to foreign nations smoother. All software reference numbers must be verified and a top probe should be initiated to plug any further loopholes in the machine.