A resident of Ranip, Ahmedabad, allegedly attempted to change his travel plans at Delhi International Airport by swapping his boarding pass with a Thane resident. The individual was originally cleared to fly to Nepal but sought to board a flight to Toronto instead. This incident occurred after the immigration formalities and security checks were completed. The details of the case have been documented in a First Information Report (FIR).
The incident took place at Indira Gandhi International Airport in the early hours of Aug 16.
Police sources said the Ahmedabad man wanted to travel to Canada and allegedly carried out the exchange at his travel agent’s behest. An airline staff member stopped a passenger scheduled to fly to Canada after suspecting that he had a fake Canadian visa and passport. During questioning, officials discovered that the man was actually an Ahmedabad resident, who had originally been cleared to fly to Kathmandu on another flight. He had shown his voter identity card as proof, stated the FIR. The Ranip resident and the Thane passenger have been booked at the IGI Airport police station under BNS provisions for cheating, cheating by personation, forgery, use of forged documents, and criminal conspiracy. The FIR also invokes provisions of the Passports Act. Police have collected the original and forged passports, boarding passes, identity documents, passenger logs and CCTV footage. Investigators are examining the role of the travel agent and trying to establish how the two passengers coordinated the alleged exchange.
