MAN DEPORTED FROM SAUDI FOR TRAVELLING ON FAKE PASSPORT

A 28-year-old man was deported from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia for allegedly trying to enter the country on a fake passport.

According to the police, Mohammad Anees Ahmad Mohammad Sakir is a resident of Uttar Pradesh. He left for Jeddah from Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport but was deported within 48 hours for “security reasons”.

Immigration officials at Mumbai airport detained him for questioning and found that his passport had been issued in Lucknow on the basis of fake documents.

The accused said that he got the passport after he lost his first one.

The Sahar police later arrested him .

Sakir had used his first passport to go to Saudi Arabia in 2012 for some work and returned to India in 2015. He said that he had lost his passport then and got a second one issued in 2016 .

Immigration officials inquired about his credentials and found that the Lucknow passport office had issued him another passport but the documents that he had submitted were fake.

His name on the second one reads Mohammad Anis, which is slightly different from his real name, Mohammad Anees. An agent helped him forge the documents.

The police said that Sakir had submitted a fake Voter ID and birth certificate.

He has been booked for cheating and forgery under the Indian Penal Code and remanded in police custody till