MEA team visits passports office in Bhopal

Bhopal, Feb 28 (UNI) A vigilance team from the Ministry of External Affairs today perused documents at the local passports office and sought details of complaints from the people present there.

''It was a routine departmental inquiry,'' a passposts official said.

The team reportedly acted on complaints regarding delay in issue of passports and even seized certain documents. The visiting officials expressed annoyance over the presence of a travel agency's two agents at the office.

Further details were awaited as Passports Officer T D Sharma was out of station while office Superintendent Amar Jenus Lakda was also not present during the team's visit.

UNI