6 Muscat-bound Andhra women caught at Mumbai airport for travelling with ‘tampered’ passports, land in jail

According to the police, the six women were readying to question by Air India formation IX-235 to Muscat. Immigration officials raised suspicion arsenic the passports of the women were recovered tampered with. They said that connected definite pages of the passports, immoderate stamps were forcefully erased.

During the preliminary inquiry, it was revealed that each six women hail from antithetic places successful Andhra Pradesh and wanted to question to Kuwait to get housemaid jobs. An cause is learnt to person helped them get an employment visa successful Kuwait.

However, arsenic POE (Protector of Emigrants) clearance was compulsory to spell to Kuwait arsenic their passports were of ECR (Emigration Check Required) status, they sought assistance from the cause again.

“The women said that the agent, utilizing immoderate chemicals, erased Kuwait’s visa stamps from their passports and past helped them get tourer visas and formation tickets to Muscat. From Muscat, they planned to spell to Kuwait,” the complainant migration serviceman stated successful the FIR.

“Due to immoderate reasons, the accused women wanted to bypass the POE clearance and, with the assistance of the agent, erased Kuwait’s employment visa stamps from their passports and tried to question utilizing the aforesaid ‘tampered passport’; hence, they person been booked nether applicable sections of the Passport Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for cheating and forgery,” said a constabulary sub-inspector from Sahar constabulary station.

The women were subsequently produced earlier the court. They were sent to judicial custody, and are presently lodged successful the Byculla women’s prison.