The police on Wednesday arrested a woman, an Uzbekistan national, on the charge of staying in the country without having visa. The matter came to fore on Wednesday, when the woman along with her acquaintance approached the police for procuring Visa.
Since, she failed to give satisfactory reply regarding her stay without Visa, the police have registered a case against her. However, the police did not find anything suspicious from her possession. The Misrod police produced her in the court on Thursday and she was sent to jail.
According to the police, an Uzbekistan national woman Barno (45) was arrested by Misrod police from Jatkhedi on a complaint by officials of Special Branch that found that the woman was living in India without having any visa.
Barno was nabbed from Jatkhedi where she was living with Vishwas Sarkar who had claimed that Barno came few days ago after she was provided his contact by one of his acquaintance in Delhi. The Uzbekistan national would be held under judicial custody till December 24.
According to her claims, she was in possession of visa for Nepal and that too got expired in the year 2014 and later after the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015, she came to India without any documents and visited several places. later, she met Vishwash Sarkar of Betul who claimed that he would help her in procuring visa and came to the city and was staying with Vishwash in Jatkhedi. The matter came into light after she was went for visa extension on Monday and special branch personnel grilling her, informed Misrod police and was later arrested.
A case under Foreigner Act -1946 was registered against the woman. During the investigation the police found have not found any suspicious documents or goods but the she was not able to provide reason behind entering the country. Investigation has been started to check the claims made by the woman.a