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New Delhi: Twenty-seven people were today arrested after they were caught at the airport here while trying to board two Dubai-bound flights following a tip off from a rival visa agency that they were carrying forged travel documents.
The CISF detained them last evening after Kingfisher and Jet Airways call centres received calls from anonymous persons that these people were to board two flights to Dubai with fake visas. The callers also gave PNR numbers of their flight tickets, sources said.
A case has been registered against them for cheating and forgery. One of them is a Bangladeshi while the others are from Punjab and West Bengal.
Police suspect that the calls were made by people belonging to a rival agency dealing in fake visas because they lost business.
The call to Jet Airways was made from Dubai and the caller had identified himself as Abhishek. Both the callers were well versed with how security agencies at the airport function. They wanted to be sure that these people are caught and they also gave a hijack threat, the sources said.
Normally such calls are made to the immigration officials, they said, pointing out that this time the callers contacted the call
centres. They also alleged that the racket was hand-in-glove with the immigration officials.
They made a hijack threat so that all agencies would get involved in it, they said.
All those arrested were from the economically weaker sections of the society who claimed that they had paid around Rs 60,000 to agents to get visas for Dubai where they were to get jobs, the sources said.
The Jet Airways call centre in Delhi received the call at around 2 pm yesterday in which the caller claimed that 15 people were planning to fly to Dubai with fake visas and they might 'hijack' the flight, the sources said.
The Kingfisher call centre in Pune received the call in which the caller claimed that 12 passengers with fake visas will be flying
to Dubai, they said. Soon after the calls were received, three teams of CISF personnel were deployed in the international terminal to catch them and airline staff were briefed and provided with the PNR numbers of the suspect travellers. 'They were allowed to enter the airport and as soon as they approached the staff at the airline counters and produced their tickets,
they were apprehended,' a senior security official had said.
The official said the security personnel at the gates were also briefed about their PNR numbers. They identified the suspects and signalled to personnel who were inside the airport.
Both Jet and Kingfisher have handed over the recordings of the telephone calls they received to the security agencies. PTI
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A case has been registered against them for cheating and forgery. One of them is a Bangladeshi while the others are from Punjab and West Bengal.
Police suspect that the calls were made by people belonging to a rival agency dealing in fake visas because they lost business.
The call to Jet Airways was made from Dubai and the caller had identified himself as Abhishek. Both the callers were well versed with how security agencies at the airport function. They wanted to be sure that these people are caught and they also gave a hijack threat, the sources said.
Normally such calls are made to the immigration officials, they said, pointing out that this time the callers contacted the call
centres. They also alleged that the racket was hand-in-glove with the immigration officials.
They made a hijack threat so that all agencies would get involved in it, they said.
All those arrested were from the economically weaker sections of the society who claimed that they had paid around Rs 60,000 to agents to get visas for Dubai where they were to get jobs, the sources said.
The Jet Airways call centre in Delhi received the call at around 2 pm yesterday in which the caller claimed that 15 people were planning to fly to Dubai with fake visas and they might 'hijack' the flight, the sources said.
The Kingfisher call centre in Pune received the call in which the caller claimed that 12 passengers with fake visas will be flying
to Dubai, they said. Soon after the calls were received, three teams of CISF personnel were deployed in the international terminal to catch them and airline staff were briefed and provided with the PNR numbers of the suspect travellers. 'They were allowed to enter the airport and as soon as they approached the staff at the airline counters and produced their tickets,
they were apprehended,' a senior security official had said.
The official said the security personnel at the gates were also briefed about their PNR numbers. They identified the suspects and signalled to personnel who were inside the airport.
Both Jet and Kingfisher have handed over the recordings of the telephone calls they received to the security agencies. PTI
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