New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the Delhi-based tout of the major passport racket, Dharma Kumar Poudel. He is known to be a major player in the passport racket.
Poudel has revealed more names to the CBI. CNN-IBN spoke to DIG CBI Pankaj Singh who said the tout he is being interrogated and has revealed certain names that need to be verified. "We received source information that Dharmaraj was involved in forgery and arrested him and produced him in court today. We have got his remand till the April 30. We are interrogating him. He has given certain names and locations and we are trying to verify it whether they are real names. When investigation will progress we will tell you more about it,” Singh said.
Earlier, CNN-IBN had revealed that the racket of fake passports runs much deeper and that the passport racket can help just about anybody get a passport made without any verification right in the national capital of Delhi.
In spite of increased security surveillance across the world against terrorist elements, the CNN-IBN investigation showed how easy it is to get a Nepali passport made right from Indian soil. Shockingly, this is possible even if the passport-seeker happens to be a terrorist or a underworld don.
During the investigation, the CNN-IBN Special Investigation Team got in touch with a tout in an effort to get a Nepali passport made for a wanted terrorist. The face chosen for the purpose happened to be that of Zahoor Iqbal Mistry, the mastermind behind the hijacking of IC-814 from Kathmandu in 1999.
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