Somalia woman passenger arrested with forged passport

Kolkata, Oct 5 (UNI) A UK bound woman passenger, a Somalia national, was arrested at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport here today with a forged passport.

Immigration officials said Nimma Sayeed Warsem was trying to go to London by an Air-India flight with a forged passport.

During interrogation, it was revealed that she is a citizen of Somalia and had come to India in 2003 with her original passport.

While studying Dental Science at a Bangalore College in Karnataka she misplaced her passport. She then bought the forged passport of South Africa from a tout.

Immigration officials also chanced upon two of her friends who had similarly purchased forged passports from a tout and were staying in a Kolkata hotel. The trio have been arrested.

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