Lure of Western Shores on the basis of Illegal Documents may lead no where

I am in Indian Settled in Canada who is home bound to India in next few months. It takes lot of courage to admit that you want to come back to India as it offers more opportunities and North America, the first favorite of any immigrant does not offer half as opportunities as India

After all, when I left India, I made no bones in telling my folks and friends that India is now behind me and that I am leaving for a country which is land of opportunities and has best law and order mechanism and offers quality of life. No doubt, the quality of life is much better but the income levels are definitely not, especially if you are a professional in your home country. First of all, you have to study every thing again and even for being a security guard you need a full fledged course even if you are a quality doctor, engineer or a accountant back in your home country.

Experiencing all this it pains me when I see hapless people still exploited by immigration agents who take no time in doing anything illegal to dupe people in getting visas. Of course, when you see any village especially in Punjab, and you discover almost each household has an member settled abroad who had gone there illegally but today he has become a reference point for anybody to move illegally abroad.

Last week New Delhi Police’s Crime Branch arrested 10 persons and discovered that large numbers of Bangladeshi nationals are illegally visiting European countries on the basis of forged Indian travel documents. Such is menace of illegal documents that even people from countries like Bangla Desh, to which we will find no comparison or similarity find Indian system too easy to exploit.

Bangladeshi nationals, with the help of touts in India, are visiting European countries, especially Greece via Turkey, on the basis of fake Indian passports but genuine visas.

Such racket of getting fake papers is rampant in Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai. Three of those arrested are allegedly the operatives of this trafficking racket, which was being run from the Nizamuddin area. One of them, Mohammad Jahinuddin alias Badul (40), is a Bangladeshi national illegally residing in India and the mastermind. Badul was taking the help of two persons, Akram Ali (35) — who runs a travel agency,

Since Turkish visa rules are very strict, especially for Bangladeshi nationals, visa aspirants have adopted this new modus operandi and are shelling out huge amounts of money, ranging from Rs 5 to 8 lakh.

The modus operandi of the racket works is as follows: the travel agents in Bangladesh reportedly affix a forged Turkish visa on the aspirant’s Bangladeshi passport and send them to their Indian counterparts in Delhi.

“Here, their accommodation is arranged for in rented rooms and their photographs taken. Meanwhile, genuine Turkish visa is obtained on passports issued in the name of Indian nationals. Then, as per the age and description, the photograph of the Bangladeshi national is pasted on the Indian passport, which already has a genuine Turkish visa. They then affix the Indian passports with forged departure stamps of the immigration authorities of Delhi,” said the officer.

From Delhi, they depart on the basis of the genuine Bangladeshi passport bearing the forged Turkish visa. “They are not detected by Indian officials, as genuine Bangladeshi passports are used,” said the officer.

Further, to avoid detection at the Istanbul Airport, the passengers show their forged Indian passports with the genuine Turkish visas. “The Turkish authorities cannot detect the fraud there, because the passengers use the Indian passport with a genuine Turkish visa,” said the officials.