72% Levitation in Fake Passport Cases- Chennai Airport
Posted on: 13/Mar/2014 4:52:21 PM
As of now, the world�s converge is on the Malaysia Airlines flight which gone astray on Saturday from the Kuala Lumpur Airport with two passengers carrying fake passports.
We have seen 72% percent rises in cases of the passengers traveling on duplicate Indian passports from the city airport in 2013 when compared to 2012, says a Chennai Airport official.
He added that even though the country has an effective system called IVFRT (Immigration, Visa Foreigners� Registration and Tracking) that helps in tracking people travelling in fake and forged passports, criminals were more talented to do forgeries.
All the Indian missions abroad, and internally all immigration offices and check posts namely airports and seaports are connected through the IVFRT system.
Immigration officials at Chennai airport had detected around 600 cases during the year 2013. In each case, people under look out circulars, who not only carried fake passports but also were involved in crime and other cases. Among them, 240 were foreigners, while the remaining were Indians in 2013.
We also put a label on the fake or forged passport of the foreigners and pass the information to the concerned countries. The airline will take them back and at the time of immigration, the officials there would arrest them,� an immigration officer says.
