Navy Lt held for 'trafficking' to South Korea

MUMBAI: Mumbai crime branch has arrested Vipin Dogra, a Navy lieutenant, for sending people to South Korea on forged documents, reported.

Dogra was produced before the 37th metropolitan magistrate court and remanded in police custody. When the 37th metropolitan magistrate, Y Patil, asked him if he had anything to say, Dogra admitted his mistake .

A crime branch official said they received information that there were some people who were using forged documents to apply for South Korean visas. Datta Nalawade, DCP (crime), said under the modus operandi, on reaching South Korea, the applicant would destroy the visa and the passport and seek asylum in that country. "Investigations revealed that Dogra was part of a gang of traffickers."