Location: Ottawa (Now in Bangalore)
Posted on: 25-06-05 13:56:42
Be careful !!!
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1411209,000500020002.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1411209,000500020002.htm
PK Balachandran
Colombo, June 25, 2005|17:18 IST
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Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) allege that a ring of unscrupulous immigration, customs, police and Air-India personnel at Indian airports are tampering with passports and using the tampered passports to harass and extort money from them.
According to an e-mail being circulated among NRIs and potential visitors to India, this is how the racket works: At a departure counter in an Indian airport, the immigration officer tears off a page or two from the NRI passenger's passport when the passenger is not looking at what is being done to his passport. When the passenger leaves the counter, a case of passport tampering is fed into the computer with full details. These details pop up when the NRI shows up at an arrival counter next time he enters India. A red flag flashes on the passport number.
"The passenger is interrogated. And subject to the period of the passenger's stay abroad, his income and standing, the price to get rid of the problem is settled by the police and the immigration people," the e-mail alleges.
"Every month 20 to 30 cases are happening all over India to rob the NRI, the minute he lands," it says. Apparently, this racket has been on for the past two or three years.
The mail mentions the case of one Arifuddin of Hyderabad, who works in Jeddah with the multinational Aramco. Having got visas to go to the United States, Arifuddin's six member family decided to proceed via Hyderabad where they had to stay for a month. At the departure counter in Hyderabad, apparently, a page from his wife's passport was torn. Since she could not enter the United States with such a passport, the whole family returned to India. At Mumbai, she was caught by the police.
In the last two months, the Arifuddin family has been knocking at the doors of the police, the immigration authorities and the courts to get relief, but in vain, the mail says.
The mail, which advices NRIs visiting India to be watchful when immigration officers handle their passports, is also being circulated by travel agents in Sri Lanka, as a warning to India-bound passengers.
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Wow !!! Since when a circulating email became a news source for Hindustantimes?
Oh and one more thing; a person working in Jeddah, departs from Hyderabad for US , refused entry in US, lands at Mumbai, gets robbed and his story gets posted in Sri Lanka section, Go figure.
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Orginally posted by macman
Wow !!! Since when a circulating email became a news source for Hindustantimes?
I first saw this ‘chain mail’ about 3 years ago while in the Middle East.
That mail (from 2002) also suggested that the “racket had been going on for the past 2 to 3 years”.
Guess time stands still for some people….or is it just fear mongering, desi style?
