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
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
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
Beijing: China will soon start issuing a new type of passport that will contain an electronic chip to record the passport holder's personal information. According to the ministry of public security, the new passports will look similar to traditional ones but the electronic chip will contain the holder's name, date of birth, photo and fingerprints, Xinhua reported. Under preparation for three years, the new passports will be available from May...
11:31 AM, May 05, 2012
Beijing: China will start issuing a new type of passport with an electronic chip that will contain a record of cardholder's personal information. The new passports will look like the traditional ones but a chip containing information like the cardholder's name, his date of birth, photograph and finger prints will be installed in them, a statement by Ministry of Public Security said on Friday. Under preparation for the past three...
10:06 AM, May 04, 2012
Srinagar: Following the arrest of suspected terrorists in Delhi on Thursday, Kashmir's top cop said Lashkar-e-Taiba has begun using local boys, as its foreign cadres started coming under pressure from the security forces. Changing its strategy, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guerrilla outfit has been trying to engage local boys, holding passports, after its foreign cadres started coming under pressure from the security forces, a senior police official said in Srinagar on...
11:52 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Puducherry: Lieutenant Governor Iqbal Singh has been accused of helping facilitate a fake passport for India's alleged tax evader Hasan Ali Khan, who's now in judicial custody. Singh has denied the allegations. He told CNN-IBN that he has no plans of resigning. Meanwhile, the state government has distanced itself from Iqbal Singh. Chief Minister V Vaithilingam has said the government had not allocated any land to the Lieutenant Governor to...
08:08 AM, Apr 18, 2011
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In a country where Nepali's, Bangladeshis and Pakistani's can practically walk across the border - why should a terrorist bother to fake a biometric passport? ...
11:17 PM, Jul 20, 2010
Appointments can be fixed through the call center or on the website. ...
12:39 PM, Mar 07, 2010
That's what the Ministry of External Affairs is planning at least by 2010. ...
01:29 AM, Oct 14, 2008
Police says several of the accused in the serial train blasts had obtained "pilgrimage visas" for Iran. ...
06:29 PM, Dec 27, 2006
The MEA has asked state governments to send police verification reports on passport applicants within two weeks. ...
05:18 PM, Aug 27, 2006
