Fake Visa Racket Busted. Four Persons Including Two Agents Nabbed

With the arrest of four persons viz 1)Manoj Sharma S/o Lal Bihari Sharma, 2) Ranglal Sharma S/o Vasant Sharma, 3) Jitender Sharma S/o Banwari Sharma, &4) Asgar khan 30  s/o Afrid khan,  IGI Airport Unit has worked out two cases of fake VISA in no time. Rs. 55000/- and four  fake VISA have been recovered from the possession of above accused persons.

Gist of Case:

On 23/09/2015, Manoj Sharma S/o Lal Bihari Sharma R/o Vill. & PO Hetimpur Siwan, Bihar and Asgar khan s/o Afrid khan r/o Village Ashiana P.O Mkhana, P.S falta South, 24 Pargana West Bengal approached the immigration counter for travelling from Delhi to Dubai by Air India flight. They presented their passports and work VISAs before the immigration officer who checked the VISAs which were found fake. Consequently, local police was informed. Upon this, two separate  cases vide FIR No. 419/2015 and 420/2015 have been registered under relevant sections of law and investigations have been taken up in right earnest.

Operation:

After registration of above cases, police swung into action. A dedicated team comprising of Sh. Satish Malik, SHO/IGI Airport , SI Tribhuwan Negi and SI Mukesh Balyan was constituted under the supervision of Sh. Raj Kumar, ACP/IGI Airport and overall supervision and guidance of the undersigned. Accused Manoj Sharma and Asgar khan were subjected to sustained interrogated, who spilled the beans that a considerable amount has been paid to the agents viz. Rang Lal Sharma and Jitender Sharma for these fake VISAs  . On the basis of leads provided by the accused and intelligence, raids were conducted at several hideouts. Consistent efforts bore fruits and the agents namely Ranglal Sharma and Jitender Sharma involved in this fake VISA racket were nabbed.

Interrogation and modus operandi :

Initially, the duo agents beat around the bush and tried to mislead the police but they were confronted with hard facts garnered during investigation. Finally they plead guilt and confessed to be involved in this racked. During interrogation, it has been transpired that initially work VISAs were fetched by the agents from a UEA based company. Thereafter PoE was required from the Ministry of labour as both the paxs were not possessing requisite qualification. In order to evade this requirement, agents prepared tourist VISAs by copying the Work VISAs. On Tourist VISAs,  paxs were to be sent out of India and thereafter work VISAs were to be used for job/employment in abroad.

Cash Rs. 55,000/- taken in lieu of fake VISA has also been recovered from the accused persons. All out efforts are being made to establish the involvement of other persons who have been sent abroad by adopting this modus operandi by these agents. Role of the company which provided work VISA is also being probed.  Sincere efforts are being made to recover the apparatus used in preparing these fake VISAs.

Recovery:

Ø Cash Rs. 55,000

Ø Four VISAs

Profile of Arrested accused:

1)Manoj Sharma, aged 27yrs   S/o Lal Bihari Sharma R/o Vill. & PO Hetimpur Siwan, Bihar is a pax. He is a carpenter by occupation and has studied upto 8th class.

2)Asgar khan, aged  30  s/o Afrid khan r/o Village Ashiana P.O Mkhana, P.S falta South, 24 Pargana West Bengal is a pax and an illiterate. 

3)Ranglal Sharma, aged 50yrs S/o Vasant Sharma R/o F-56, Harsh Vihar, Tank Road, Jaitpur, Badarpur, Delhi is an  Agent. He originally hails from Bihar and has rental accommodation in Delhi.  

4)Jitender Sharma,aged 39yrs S/o Banwari Sharma R/o D-47/14, Mohan Baba Nagar, Badarpur, Delhi is an  Agent. He is  English tutor and is married.  He originally hails from Bihar.