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By Marri Ramu
HYDERABAD, MARCH 13. All work and no supervision in the Special Branch (SB) wing of Hyderabad Police is helping people acquire passports with different names! Overloaded with work, Inspectors of Special Police are forced to sign bunches of passport verification applications put before them by constables everyday. Absence of a method to crosscheck the verification work done by the constables is giving scope for issue of multiple passports to the same person with different names. Added to this inadequate set-up is the lack of a central database pertaining to details of verifications earlier. There is no way for the police to check if a person had applied for a passport with a new address, even after having one on a different address.
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There are some unscrupulous employees in the Regional Passport Office too. Two employees were arrested recently on the charge of helping a couple acquire passports with different names. Each SB zonal inspector is provided with a team of 13 to 15 constables or head constables who are attached to each of the police station in the city. These constables are to meet passport applicants and verify details mentioned in the application. Incidentally, the SB personnel are also expected to collect information of all incidents, inquire into corruption charges as per instructions of higher-ups and a whole lot of other duties. This had made passport verification work rather a routine job giving scope for mistakes and malpractices. In some areas, SB constables are forced to verify details of more than 10 persons on a day. "This is practically not possible and the Inspector too would simply sign the forms put before him because he doesn't have any other option," a police officer observed.
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