The sleuths of the Anti-terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested an accused from Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, wanted by the police for procuring a passport with the help of forged documents. The arrest was made late on Tuesday evening.
Reports said that one Ugrah Singh, a native of Chitauni area of Vijayeepur in Gopalganj district of Bihar, had submitted forged documents to procure a passport from Regional Passport Office in lucknow, on January 31, 2005. The ATS, who found the above forgery along with three other fake passports, had registered a case against Ugrah Singh along with Raees Ahmed, and Mohamed Bahaudeen, Mohamed Chand Babu, on November 25, 2009 (Case Crime No- 3/2009 under section 420/467/468/471 IPC and 12(1), 12(2) of the Passport Act.
According to IG (ATS) Aseem Arun, they found that after procuring above passport (no-F-4705069), Ugrah Singh, made another passport from Indian Embassy in Kuwait (passport no: l-0032097) March 28, 2013 which will expire in 2023. He claimed that the investigation showed that the real name of Urgah Singh was Ram Ugrah Singh, and that he managed a fake passport with the help an agent in Bhogri Bazar in Deoria after paying Rs 12,000.
Arun said that they traced the whereabouts of Singh and learnt that in 2006, he left for Kuwait, where he was working as carpenter. He claimed that they sent a report to the Indian Embasssy in Kuwait to get Singh’s passport cancelled and on December 6, last year, they issued a look out notice to carry out his arrest. He claimed that they finally learnt that Singh was arriving lucknow on Oman Airlines craft at Chaudary Charan Singh International Airport on Tuesday evening. He said that during checking, the ATS team intercepted the accused during immigration check and took him in custody. Further interrogations are on in this regard.