TNN | May 28, 2013
LUCKNOW: Following up on the directives issued by special task force, the district police on Monday nabbed nine passport touts from Gomtinagar area on Monday noon though the kingpin of the group was still at large. On being questioned, the arrested touts gave names of a few passport office employees who are related to agents and facilitate the process of obtaining passports for a certain amount.
The former regional passport officer had written to special task force sleuths some weeks back to curb the menace of passport touts that had apparently penetrated the Vipin Khand-located Passport Bhavan over the years. The surveillance team of district police subsequently raided the passport office and nabbed nine touts.
"The group of nine is led by the absconding accused and they trap gullible victims under the pretext of expediting the process of procuring passport," said Nagaendra Chaubey, in charge of the surveillance cell. The touts would bait 'walk-in applicants' around the passport office that queue up for obtaining application reference number before visiting Passport Seva Kendra located on the Vidhan Sabha Marg. The touts would then go through the documents of applicants, many from far flung areas of the state, and point out mistakes or loopholes in their applications. As per the urgency of the victim, the touts then successfully convinced them to cough up an amount in the range of Rs 10,000 to Rs 30,000.
Gomtinagar police booked Monu Kumar, Sumit Shukla, Rishabh Nag, Chintu Sahu, Vinod Kumar, Jeetendra Verma, Dharmendra Gautam, Ramchandra Gupta and Nisar Ahmed under sections of Anti-Corruption Act and IPC. The sleuths recovered passports, documents, applications forms and ten mobile phones. Efforts to track the employees who were supporting the group were underway, added Chaubey.
LUCKNOW: Following up on the directives issued by special task force, the district police on Monday nabbed nine passport touts from Gomtinagar area on Monday noon though the kingpin of the group was still at large. On being questioned, the arrested touts gave names of a few passport office employees who are related to agents and facilitate the process of obtaining passports for a certain amount.
The former regional passport officer had written to special task force sleuths some weeks back to curb the menace of passport touts that had apparently penetrated the Vipin Khand-located Passport Bhavan over the years. The surveillance team of district police subsequently raided the passport office and nabbed nine touts.
"The group of nine is led by the absconding accused and they trap gullible victims under the pretext of expediting the process of procuring passport," said Nagaendra Chaubey, in charge of the surveillance cell. The touts would bait 'walk-in applicants' around the passport office that queue up for obtaining application reference number before visiting Passport Seva Kendra located on the Vidhan Sabha Marg. The touts would then go through the documents of applicants, many from far flung areas of the state, and point out mistakes or loopholes in their applications. As per the urgency of the victim, the touts then successfully convinced them to cough up an amount in the range of Rs 10,000 to Rs 30,000.
Gomtinagar police booked Monu Kumar, Sumit Shukla, Rishabh Nag, Chintu Sahu, Vinod Kumar, Jeetendra Verma, Dharmendra Gautam, Ramchandra Gupta and Nisar Ahmed under sections of Anti-Corruption Act and IPC. The sleuths recovered passports, documents, applications forms and ten mobile phones. Efforts to track the employees who were supporting the group were underway, added Chaubey.
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