Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru 

Bengaluru, Nov 26: A woman from Kerala was arrested for travelling to the UAE, for posing as a 44-year-old woman while she was actually 62-years-old. 

Mary Thazhutharath Parambil Peter from Kochi had forged her passport to make it seem that she is 18 years younger than her actual age. This is because, she had applied for the job of a domestic help and people above 60 cannot be hired as per UAE’s rules. 

She then approached an agent, who managed to change her date of birth from 1957 to 1975 on the passport. 

The immigration officials of Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) sensed something is wrong as Mary behaved in a suspicious manner after checking in to board a flight to Sharjah at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru. 

When the immigration officials started cross-checking all her documents, they found that her date of birth has been forged on the passport. She was handed over to BIAL police. A case has been registered against her under various sections of the Passport Act and she is currently in judicial custody. 

In a separate incident, a 25-year-old engineer from Kochi was arrested on November 23 for having a fake stamp of Malaysia and the Indonesian immigration department in his passport. 

The accused Antony Farison was taken to custody. He confessed that he had visited Indonesia on a tourist visa but overstayed there for employment.