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London-educated engineer among two held in fake visa racket, both booked under MCOCA

They were high-fliers who had their wings clipped this week. Delhi police claims to have busted a fake visa

racket with the arrest of Arshad Alam (33) and Bhupendar Singh (38). Both the accused have been booked under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).

The accused have startling profiles. While Arshad is an engineer from London, Bhupendar is a diploma holder in Civil engineering from Pusa college of Delhi.

"During interrogation Arshad revealed that he has done B.Tech in Leather Technology from London School of Technology in the UK. Then he returned to India and started the business of leather export from Muzaffarnagar in UP. In the year 1999 his sister got married to Vipin Sharma who is the kingpin and was arrested by the special cell of Delhi police in May. Arshad saw the huge profits in the business of his brother-in-law and he came to Delhi to join hands with him and gave up his export business. We arrested Arshad on July 1 from Delhi," the officer added.

The police recovered 10 passports with various names and two passports with fake visas of New Zealand from Arshad. "The accused revealed that the fake visas are given by Bhupendar Singh and he is an expert at making them. Then we laid a trap to catch Bhupendar and arrested him on July 6 from Nangloi area. We recovered a laptop and a printer from him. These equipments were used to prepare the fake visas," the officer revealed.

When the accused were nabbed they had already opened their fifth fake office. The police claim to have solved 30 cases with the arrest of these persons. "Both the accused were proclaimed offenders in 22 cases. They would open an office, dupe people and then shut it down and disappear. We have found 30 victims so far and we are investigating other cases," said the officer.

UP IN THE AIR
A day after 27 people were detained at IGI Airport for trying to board a Dubai-bound flight with fake visas, Delhi Police arrested two travel agents on July 7. The cops were tipped off after two airline call centres received phone calls saying the 27 travellers would try to hijack a flight. The travel agents include Rakesh Chopra, owner of Pan Travels in Connaught Place, and his employee Sunil Bisht. The travellers had paid Rs 1-1.5 lakh for their visas to their local contacts in their respective states. They were then asked to approach the Delhi contact who bought the flight tickets in bulk from Pan Travels.

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