Lucknow, November 21: Special Task Force sleuths in Uttar Pradesh have arrested two people involved in issuing fake visas, days after a suspected Pakistani spy was taken into custody in New Delhi with an Indian passport.
Acting on a tip off, STF team arrested two persons Mohd Hasan Abbas of Azamgarh and Maksood Alim of Jaunpur from Naka Police station area yesterday with 19 passports and other documents through which they used to prepare visas for sending people abroad illegally.
Ali was arrested last Saturday from Delhi airport. The UP Anti Terrorist Squad team probing issuance of passport to Ali from here, had said that it had detected gross procedural anomalies both in the Regional Passport office and Local Intelligence Unit.
–PTI