Lucknow: UP police have arrested a 26-year-old cab driver for forging his 22-year-old brother’s documents to get a fake passport and then secure a study visa for Singapore. He was arrested after the younger sibling filed an FIR.
SP (rural) in Saharanpur Sagar Jain said “The accused, Sachin Rana, a resident of village Mirzapur under Badgaon police station, was desperate to study abroad but he was not able to secure a visa due to academic gap years (he passed class 12 in 2013). So, he got a fake passport issued, secured a study visa using his brother Gautam’s credentials in April 2022 and left for Singapore in June 2022.”
According to SHO Vishal Srivastava, “Investigations revealed that Sachin had contacted an overseas education consultant in early 2022 who, on the basis of Gautam’s forged documents, secured admission for him in Trent Global College of Technology and Management in Singapore. Sachin had applied for a 14-month diploma programme in building services management but he returned within six months without finishing the course”.
Srivastava added, “Sachin couldn’t complete the course as he failed to pay the final installment. He worked at a local bar there to make ends meet. However, depressed by the turn of events, he returned in December last year.”
The matter came to light in March when Gautam applied for a passport to visit Dubai with his wife, only to find out that the same had already been issued to someone else. Based on suspicion, he filed an application of fraud against Sachin at the regional passport office in Ghaziabad which forwarded the same to Saharanpur police. Thereafter, an FIR was registered against Sachin in May under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of a valuable document), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating) and 471 (fraudulent usage of a genuine document). He was arrested on Tuesday after he came to Saharanpur for some work.
