Kasargod: Air Crash – Shahnawaz Contradicts Records, Says He Is Alive
Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod (SP)

Kasargod, Jun 7: Shahnawaz Mohammad Koya, a resident of Pallikkanattil in Kozhikode, has filed a complaint in the Indian consulate in Dubai, contradicting a claim that he had travelled by the ill-fated Air India Express flight No. IX-812 from Dubai, which crashed at Mangalore airport on May 22. As per records, the man travelling by using his passport, had died in the tragedy.

“I did not travel by the said flight. But some unidentified person flew by that flight by using passport No. 0606599, which actually stands in my name. A detailed investigation should be conducted into the circumstances in which the same passport number was used by someone else,” he demanded in the complaint.

In his complaint, he alleged that a fake passport racket was actively functioning from ‘Kasargod Embassy’ in Kasargod.

With the receipt of this complaint, the processing of the claim of Abdul Samad from Kannur, whose name is listed at No. 52 in the list of passengers who travelled by the said flight, has faced problems. His family will now be finding it hard to get the relief and compensation. This passenger had travelled in the name, Abdul Samad Shanawaz, Pellarattingal House, Arakinar, Kozhikode.

It is said that the family of Shahnawaz, which found the passport number given in the list matching with that of Shahnawaz, called him and found that he is safe. The officials who have received the complaint, are making enquiries, it is learnt. They are aware that the government will be answerable at a later date, if it disburses relief and compensation to those who travelled by using fake passports.

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