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Last Updated: February 26, 2024, 17:11 IST
The accused left for Bangkok on July 30, 2023, from Lucknow Airport.
The man was apprehended from a flight named Thai Airways Flight TG-1331, when it landed at the airport in Bangkok, Thailand.
The security personnel arrested a man named Gurpreet Singh at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi. He has been arrested for making a fake immigration arrival stamp for Malaysia. As per reports, he was caught due to an error in the spelling of the arrival stamp.
Gurpreet hails from the Safdarpur village, Patiala, Punjab. He was apprehended from a flight named Thai Airways Flight TG-1331, when it landed at the airport from Bangkok, Thailand. The security officer took Gurpreet Singh to an officer from the Immigration Bureau named Satish Kumar. The airline security staff handed over the necessary documents to Kumar and informed him that Gurpreet had been deported from Bangkok.
The scrutiny of Gurpreet’s documents revealed that he left for Bangkok on July 30, 2023, from Lucknow Airport in Uttar Pradesh. He boarded the Thai AirAsia flight FD-147 on an on-arrival visa. A visa on arrival is a type of visa issued at the time of a foreign national’s arrival in a country.
During the investigation, immigration officer Satish Kumar found two immigration stamps on Gurpreet’s passport. The first arrival stamp was affixed by Thailand Immigration on July 31, 2023, on page number seven. At the same time, the second stamp dated July 31, 2023, was also affixed on page number five of the passport. This was, however, the arrival stamp of Malaysia Immigration. There was no immigration stamp on Gurpreet’s passport, which would have shown that he had gone to Malaysia from the airport. Immigration stamp gives the sanction to gain entrance to the host country.
This was revealed when Kumar observed Gurpreet’s Malaysian Immigration stamp very closely. He realised that the spellings of West were misspelt as Wrst and Thirty was written as Shirty. The officer soon found that Gurpreet’s arrival immigration stamp from Malaysia on page number five was fake. After an initial interrogation, he handed over the accused to the IGI Airport Police. The police have registered a case and started an investigation.
In a similar case, a man from Malaysia named Gagan Deep Singh was earlier arrested because he had fake stamp entries in his passport.