Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)

Bengaluru, May 21: A 34-year-old man, resident of Tamil Nadu, who is an electrician by profession was arrested by the immigration officials at the Kempegowda International Airpport (KIA) for possession a fake Canadian visa on Saturday, May 18. He had landed in the airport from Kaula Lumpur.

With the arrest of this man, the city police have busted a fake visa racket. The arrested person is Tamilselvan. He was taken for interrogation by the BIAL police and is booked for forgery and cheating. The accused is remanded to judicial custody by the judicial magistrate.

According to the city police, they have alerted their counterparts in Malaysia and wrote a letter in this regard and have asked them to apprehend four others and send them back to India, who are also believed to be the members of this fake visa racket.

Tamilselvan has confessed with the police that he was returning home after working for British Petroleum in Canada as an electrician for the past two years. It is unearthed by the police that an agent, who is based in Chennai by the name Vijaya Parthaban Jothi and the leader of the racket had assured better jobs for Tamilselvan and three others by the name Krishnamurthy Anand Shankar, Ramalingam Venkatesan and Selvakumar Muthukrishnan for an amount of Rs four and a half lac.

The agent had asked the four people to pay an advance of Rs 1.8 lac in advance and the rest of the amount after getting their job confirmed in Canada.

As per the deal all the four were sent to Indonesia by Jothi on April 3 on fake Canadian visas. They went to Kaula Lumpur on May 3 from Indonesia. However, they could not proceed further as they did not have the flight tickets to Canada. Tamilselvan had to return to India as his tourist visa got expired.

Police are on the search for Jothi and sounded alert in all the airports to nab the other three accomplices of Tamilselvan when they arrive in the country.