Karnataka - Bangalore   

Sri Lankan caught with fake passport Crime notes

BANGALORE: A Sri Lankan national who was caught with a fake passport at the airport on Friday told the police that he wanted to go Paris and work in hotels run by people of his country there.

Nataraj Shashikaran of Jaffna was caught early on Friday while he was to board the Air India flight for Paris via Mumbai. Immigration officials, who found one person short in the clearance list, checked the passports of all Paris-bound passengers and found that Shashikaran’s passport had a fake international departure seal.

Shashikaran reportedly told the police that he wanted to go Paris and seek asylum there. “He has told us that many from his countrymen do this and do not disclose their nationality,” said Assistant Commissioner of Police (Bengaluru International Airport) B.B. Ashok Kumar. The police are investigating how he was able get a passport here.

A 22-year-old driver of a multi-utility vehicle was killed when the vehicle rammed a newly constructed bridge at Bhuvanahalli, near the Bengaluru International Airport, on Friday. In another incident, a 45-year-old field officer of Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra was killed when he was hit by a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus near Jakkur airfield on Bellary Road on Saturday.

The police said Siddappa, a field officer in Hassan, had come to a dhaba along with his friends. The KSRTC bus going from Bangalore to Bagepalli hit Siddappa while he was crossing the road. Siddappa died before he could be taken to a hospital.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Air Force opposes BIAL plan on second runway
‘Ban private bulk trade near APMC’
Many ministers bitten by vaastu bug
‘Amend Co-op. Act’
PU re-examination to be held on July 10
Doctors Day
‘Islamic charity groups should focus on education’
Congress team for Delhi
CA conference inaugurated
Report on attrition shows surprising factors
BJP Minority Morcha programmes
‘Field Marshal Manekshaw had a magical vision’
Bank interest rates
Unaided schools in a fix over medium of instruction
Rs. 83-crore cess collected for construction workers
Evaluation boycotted
Sri Lankan national caught with fake passport
Residential school teachers demand confirmation of services
Panel asks private firms for data on caste
‘Uphold core values of democracy’
SFI resents move to ‘saffronise’ education
‘Verdict a blow to education system’
Meeting on tourism to be held in Mysore
Plan to widen road near K.R. Puram station
Woman ends life at mother’s grave
Sri Lankan caught with fake passport Crime notes
Two die
‘V.K.R.V. Rao was a Field Marshal of economic studies in India’
One case of dengue reported
No consensus at discussion on stray dog menace
Numra’s future remains uncertain
Benniganahalli underpass work may take two more years
In Bangalore Today

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu