Rameswaram: Two persons who were planning to send several Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to Germany using fake Indian passports were on Wednesday arrested and 71 counterfeit passports seized from them at Naripaiyur in Ramanathapuram district, police said.
Cash to the tune of Rs 11.5 lakh was also seized from the duo by the 'Q' Branch Police which nabbed them on a tip-off. The two had promised 71 refugees that they would be sent to Germany and collected money from them, police said.
They were produced before a court which remanded them to judicial custody.Instances of trafficking of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to other countries, including Australia, have been on the rise in the recent past.
Last week, Mangalore police nabbed five persons for alleged human trafficking and rescued 88 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, who were being illegally sent to Australia, from their clutches. ...
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12:46 AM, May 02, 2013
Monte Carlo: Current anti-doping measures in tennis are a "disaster" and the introduction of biological passports can only improve matters, world number six Tomas Berdych said. "The system right now... I don't know how it works with the others but with me, it does not work at all," the Czech told Reuters in an interview at the Monte Carlo Masters this week. "You have to say every single day... where...
11:52 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Patna: A local court in the district rejected the bail application of Pune-based businessman Hasan Ali Khan in a fake passport case. Judicial Magistrate Sunil Kumar passed the order summarily rejecting Khan's bail plea on Friday. The police had last week submitted a chargesheet in the court hearing the fake passport case against the businessman, who is presently lodged in a Mumbai jail. A case was lodged against Khan under...
03:46 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Tennis has agreed to adopt the biological passport programme and to increase blood testing as part of a new anti-doping drive. ...
03:58 PM, Mar 07, 2013
The Cabinet has given in-principle approval to a bill providing for time-bound delivery of services. This effectively means that bureaucrats will now have to face the music for delay in dispensing services like pensions, passports, caste certificates, ration cards, tax refunds and police procedures. ...
11:04 AM, Mar 07, 2013
World number two Roger Federer has called for the introduction of biological passports in tennis similar to those used in cycling to detect possible doping. ...
11:04 AM, Feb 12, 2013
Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, also called "Quaid-e-Azam", had a British passport and took an oath of allegiance to British King George VI after assuming charge as the first governor-general of independent Pakistan, a politician has said. Defending public criticism for holding dual nationality, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said former prime minister Nawaz Sharif lived with his family in Saudi Arabia on a "diplomatic passport" for a...
01:05 PM, Jan 11, 2013
A Pakistani man tore up his passport in a bid to get off an Italy-bound flight after getting a phone call from his distressed wife who was upset about his decision to go abroad, officials said on Thursday. ...
05:58 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Gwalior: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that those indulging in molestation and sexual harassment will not be get driving licence, passport and other government facilities. The step is being taken to control the menace in the state, Chouhan said during a function at the Gwalior trade fair in Gwalior on Monday evening. Those found involved in molestation would not be given driving licence, passport and character...
01:03 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Dehradun: A special CBI court in Dehradun will hear Baba Ramdev's aide Balkrishna's fake passport case. He has been charged with forgery and violation of the Indian Passport Act. CBI claims Balkrishna obtained the passport on the basis of a fake date of birth certificate. According to the Enforcement Directorate's initial investigations, Balkrishna was involved in a Jharkhand-based company and is alleged to have violated FEMA guidelines. He allegedly travelled...
08:40 AM, Oct 22, 2012
Mumbai: A local court on Friday acquitted 19 persons, accused to have helped get fake passports for the hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999. In December 1999, Mumbai police's crime branch arrested Abdul Latif, an alleged terrorist, from suburban Jogeshwari and claimed to have recovered an AK-56 rifles, hand grenades and rocket launchers from him. According to police, he confessed to committing a bank robbery for...
10:41 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Procuring passport will be costlier from October 1 as the government has decided to increase the passport and related services fees from Rs 1000 to Rs 1500 under the normal category and from Rs 2500 to Rs 3500 under Tatkal scheme. An announcement in this regard was made in a statement by the Ministry of External Affairs on Friday night. The Passport and related services were last fixed...
11:23 PM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: Now Indians travelling Down Under will not have to face the hassles of getting a visa labelled on their passport, as Australia is introducing label free visa arrangements from October 1. "Travelling to Australia will now be a lot quicker and easier for Indian travellers as they will no longer need to have a visa label placed in their passport," said Peter Varghese, Australian High Commissioner to India....
10:48 PM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to accord a personal hearing to VHP leader Sadhvi Ritambhara and pass a reasoned order on her plea for issuance of a passport for ten years instead of one as she frequently visits abroad for giving religious discourses. "The present petition (of Sadhvi) be treated as a representation by respondent (Regional Passport Office of the External Affairs Ministry) and...
06:11 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Amidst mounting trouble for yoga guru Ramdev, the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday registered a money laundering case against his close aide Balkrishna even as the agency is all set to close in on the two in its probe against their trusts. The agency registered the case acting on the CBI FIR, which had charged Balkrishna with violations of the Passport Act. Sources said the ED suspects that Balkrishna,...
09:55 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Dehradun: Yoga guru Ramdev's aide Balkrishna, who spent nearly a month behind bars in a fake document case, was on Friday released from Suddhowala jail, a day after being granted bail by the High Court. Balkrishna was given a rousing welcome outside the jail and was taken to Haridwar where slogan shouting followers of Ramdev greeted him. Addressing a gathering, Balkrishna claimed that he was being framed in the case....
07:24 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Nainital: The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday granted bail to yoga guru Ramdev's close aide Balkrishna, nearly a month after he was arrested by the CBI in a fake document case. Hearing the bail application, a single judge bench of Justice Tarun Agrawal granted bail to Balkrishna. The court also ordered Balkrishna to furnish two personal sureties of Rs 10 lakh, Balkrishna's counsel Rajendra Dobhal said. Balkrishna had moved the...
02:44 PM, Aug 16, 2012
New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev's close aide Acharya Balkrishna's judicial custody has been extended till August 27. He was produced before a Dehradun court on Monday. Balkrishna was arrested in a case of forgery and violation of the Indian Passport Act. Balkrishna was arrested last month in a fake passport case after he failed to appear at a Dehradun court. Balkrishna had allegedly provided fake documents to procure a...
01:04 PM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev's close aide Acharya Balkrishna's judicial custody ends on Monday. He will be produced before a Dehradun court. Balkrishna was arrested in a case of forgery and violation of the Indian Passport Act. Balkrishna was arrested last month in a fake passport case after he failed to appear at a Dehradun court. Balkrishna had allegedly provided fake documents to procure a passport. ...
08:30 AM, Aug 13, 2012
Kochi: The Crime Branch team investigating a sex racket in Kochi, whereby young girls were taken to the Gulf, received information on Saturday that about 12 girls were transported with the assistance of Kochi airport officials by forging the passports. The Crime Branch investigation was held on the basis of the complaint from a girl who escaped the clutches of the racket and reached Mumbai. The sex racket operating in...
09:46 AM, Jul 29, 2012
