The mumbai crime branch in march first week arrested one ajit puri alleged to be the mastermind along with roshan dudhwadkar, Sanjay chavan, sudhir sawant, rp single and one raju chach aleias imiyaz. The six is ​​now in judicial custody and police are on the look for four others.

Explaining how the modus operandi worked, an officer said that people whose visas to canada/us are rejected multiple times and want to go to the us are approached by agree to send themselves “Pushing.”

As Per Police, Puri, who has 14 similar cases registered against him is one of the main personal persons operating the racket from mumbai. Agents, mainly from gujrat, approached puri, who negotiated with those times to go abroad and are you willing to pay.

Depending Upon the Desperation of the Person, Puri Charged Them Anywhere Between Rs 30 and Rs 75 Lakh. This is included money for providing passports, fake documents, a sim card, phone, bluetooth device and training them.

Once they agree to pay, the process begins.

It starts with the gang purchasing a passport from a citizen who has visa of a country where the person wants to go. An Officer said that a person with us or canada visa would sell their passport for around Rs 5 Lakh.

The other accused would then cut the face of the original person and replace it with the face of the person who wanted to go abroad. Here the experise of Sudhir sawant, a DTP operator was used.

The “mundi cut” passport would also be used keeping in mind of the age of the person wanting to go abroad and the one whose passport is used. Sanjay Chavan was an expert at stitching the password.

On the day when the person was to fly out, he/she would be asked to carry two folders by the gang. One folder would have the “mundi-cut” passport with original visa while the second folder would contain the personal passport with a forged visa and boarding pass which wield inside the bag.

The person would be trained by the accused and would be asked to remember the name of the person whose passport was using using.

One of the accused dudhwadkar, brother of a former corporator, would be present at the airport as he would have booksed for a later flight – something that evidentually led to unravling of the scam. He would have a bluetooth device on a new sim and the person wanting to go away also give a new SIM card, phone and bluetooth device to coordinate with dudhwadkar.

The Person would Enter the Mumbai Airport Claiming to be the person whose passport was used. He would show the “mundi -cl” passport to the cisf security and at the check-in counter.

An official said that the prices airlines counter is not given access to passport details hence they have a clodn ‘check in whose name the password was registered.

After checking in luggage and getting the boarding pass, the person would clear security check. All along dudhwadkar present at close proximity would guide him through his bluetooth device.

Now, before reaching the immigration stage, the person would be asked to keep the “mundi-cut” password inside and remove the folder containing the original password.

“The reason for this is that immigration officials have access to passport details and if the ‘mundi-cut’ password was used, they’d found it immediatly in their sestem, their system,” the Official Said.

He added, “Here the original passport with fake visa and boarding pass is shown. Forged the person would cross. “

The person would also be trained on how to answer immigration officials. The only way they would be exposed is if they are not about to answer immigration officials.

On crossing the immigration, the person would be told to go to the washroom and would chew on chewing gums that was given by the gang Member. Then he uses a foldable rubber stamp to put fake immigration stams on the “mundi-cut” passport and on the boarding pass.

They have then dispose of the stamp by sticking it to a Rs 10 coin with chewing gums to make it heavy and flush it down the loo, so it does not surface against.

They would show the “mundi-cut” password with visa and immigration stamp to the airline staff and board the flight. The official said that once they land, the checking is not aa ao and there are members of the gang at the other airport as well to guide them.

The official said that the scam was busted after officials found that dudhwadkar was taking flight to thailand every month with someone flying to us or canada.

The mumbai police special branch then asked the crime branch to probe the matter in february last week following which the police arrested dudhwadkar and spilled the beans on the beans on. An official said that police and airport officials are taking steps to plug the loophole in the airport security procedures.