Hyderabad, June 30: Hyderabad Police seems to have working actively these days, in an attempt to break the fake Visit Visa racket, Police arrested an educational consultancy owner, Mohd. Masooduddin, 36, who was allegedly making and selling fake documents to secure ‘student’ and ‘visit’ visas, was arrested by the Hyderabad police on Tuesday. Masooduddin, from whom passports of 21 persons were seized, managed to secure two passports, Police Commissioner, A.K. Khan, said.
The accused was arrested earlier on similar charge. He was running Creative Overseas Education Consultancy at Himayathnagar. While the first passport was procured from Hyderabad Regional Passport Office in 1994, the second one was obtained from Nagpur Regional Passport Office with a fictitious name of Maqsood Ahmed in 2001.
He used to collect Rs. 50,000 from student visa aspirants and Rs. 2 lakh to Rs. 3 lakh from those aspiring for visit visas and arrange fake documents like Income Tax returns, tax paid certificate of Commercial Taxes department and chartered accountant statements.
By making and selling such fake documents, he had helped several fly abroad with student and visit visas. Mr. Khan said details of all those, who secured visas with the help of the accused, would be intimated to the consulates and embassies of the countries concerned for penal action.
“We warn people not to approach such agents as this is illegal way of securing a visa and amounts to abetting a crime,” the Commissioner said. There is possibility of consulates permanently blacklisting individuals who resort to illegal means to secure visas.
–Agencies