6 caught with fake passports, arrested

VASCO: The CID, immigration, detained six people travelling with fake passports at the Dabolim airport between Friday and Saturday.
At 2.30am on Saturday, five people were trying to board an Air Arabia flight to Sharjah. While scrutinizing their passports, the officials in charge suspected them to be fake. An inquiry confirmed this and soon after, two men and three women were handed over to the Vasco police.
Sreenivasrao Panthan and Madersaheb Shaikh-both 35, Gaumsia Shaikh, 40- all three from Andhra Pradesh, Gamrul Laila Ali, 32 and Sakira Begum, 40 from Kerala were produced at the Vasco JMFC and have been remanded to five days of police custody.
A case under Sections 465, 466 and 471 of the IPC and Section 12 of the Passports Act has been registered against them. On Friday, the CID, immigration, also detained Suresh Gujjla, 33, for trying to board a Goa-Kuwait flight with a fake passport.