Deported Indians: Immigration, AI officials summoned

Mumbai: After 21 Indians were deported from Muscat for holding illegal visas, the Sahar police are trying to ascertain how the forged documents got past the Indian immigration authorities.
The police have summoned the immigration authorities as well Air India employees who issued the boarding passes to the accused without verifying the visas thoroughly, said sources.
The deported Indians, who had flown to Muscat on January 13 to take up unskilled jobs, were sent back to Mumbai by an Air India flight early on Tuesday morning.
Senior inspector Sahar police station, C K Chavan, said, "We are also looking for two agents who had forged the visas." The sources said none of the men detained knew English or Hindi. Most of them were from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
18/01/07 Times of India

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