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Probe comes to a halt in fake passports case in Pune

Police get no inputs from Myanmar embassy, Patna, Hyderabad passport offices

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Investigations by the airport police into a case, in which two Myanmar nationals were caught using fake passports, have come to a halt as neither Myanmar embassy nor Patna and Hyderabad passport offices have provided details to the police. As a result, the police are struggling to make any headway in the case.

Two Myanmarese nationals, Ansari Mehboob Alam (24) and Gazi Najbul Hasan (23) had gone to Sharjah from Lohegaon Airport on the night of September 21 and were caught by the Sharjah airport authorities with fake passports. They were deported to India. On September 23, the Lohegaon police arrested the duo.

During the course of investigations, the Airport police have found that the duo were in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoband in the first week of February where they met one Habid. Later, Habid took them to his house and told them that he would send them to Gulf country and also promised them that he would issue passports on their names.

The points that the investigation threw up was that before leaving for Sharjah, the Myanmarese nationals worked for six months in Deoband in Uttar Pradesh, a hotbed of ultraconservative Islamic sect. Besides the passports were made without having any documents and the duo was sent from a smaller airport on a maiden flight to Sharjah since the checks would be minimal.
Police inspector (crime) Sunil Gharge of Airport police station said, “We had written to the Patna and Hyderabad offices, but we have not got any details from them. We had also written to the Myanmar embassy, but there are no leads from them too.” Considering the gravity of the case, the Airport police will send three teams to Patna, Hyderabad and Deoband.

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