‘Sri Lankan’ youth held with forged UK visa

AHMEDABAD: A youth aged around 20, who is suspected to be a Sri Lankan citizen and also has Aadhaar card from Tamilnadu, was held by immigration department at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI) airport when he was about to board an Air India flight to London on Wednesday morning.
The youth identified as Anthony Joseph approached the immigration department for clearance to board the London-bound Air India flight when officials suspected that his passport was forged.
“The counter officer of immigration department noticed that many of the security features like kinegram, embossing, UV watermark, office seal stamp, commencing and expiry date of visa, check digit of the machine readable zone of the UK visa seemed forged and was not in order compared to a genuine UK visa,” stated the FIR.
Joseph said that the visa was arranged for him by his maternal uncle Paramanantham Nandan, a resident of Chennai.
“The person was also questioned about his suspected Sri Lankan identity which he denied. Apart from his passport, he did not have any other identity document. He stated that he had lost his wallet while travelling from Mumbai recently,” the FIR stated.
Airport police booked Joseph for forgery, forging documents and abetment in the offence of forging passport.