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New Delhi, Punjab Police has arrested seven Afghanistan refugees including three women who obtained Indian passports on fake name and address to settle abroad after seeking political asylum. All of them have given their address of a village in Nawanshehar district of Punjab.
Police sources said that they have been arrested from Banglore, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai after police sent out a look-out notice to all the airports in the country.
They are among 130 such Afghanistan nationals belonging to Hindu and Sikh communities who obtained passports on fake identities.
About a dozen of them had reportedly left India. All of them said to have come to India in 1990 and settled in New Delhi.
Ministry of External Affairs has also been informed about the matter.
Deputy Superintendent of Police, Nawanshehar, Sarabjit Singh, who is investigating the case said that since March, this year, when the case was registered after the facts unearthed, nine persons involved in providing fake passports have been arrested.
These include a police head constable who verified fake names and addresses, five agents who helped in getting the passports and three postmen who delivered them at fake addresses.
(Agencies)
