Bhubaneswar: Airport Police arrested a 34-year-old Uttar Pradesh resident for possessing three Indian passports in different names.
The daring fraud was exposed during routine immigration check after the accused – identified as Brijesh Kumar, a native of Mojarapur village in UP’s Azamgarh district – landed at the Biju Patnaik International Airport while returning from Bangkok.
According to police, ‘Brijesh’ landed in Bhubaneswar on an IndiGo flight at 11.35 am on November 13. Immigration officials found he had obtained three passports using forged documents from the Regional Passport Office (RPO) in Lucknow using the same residential address.
The passports were issued under different identities — Dalveer Yadav (Passport No. P8634532), Brijesh Kumar (Passport No. S6746689), Brijesh Prasad (Passport No. W5097587).
His travel history revealed that the accused had used these passports in 2017, 2019 and 2023 to travel several times to Thailand and other foreign countries.
Brijesh confessed to orchestrating the forgery with the help of two agents.
Based on a complaint by Immigration Officer Gyanendra Padhi, Airport Police Station arrested the Brijesh, and seized one passport, four mobile phones, Rs 6,500 in Indian and Thai currency from his possession.
Investigation is on to recover his other two passports and apprehend the two agents involved in the racket.
The accused will be produced in court.