Emigration scam: 3 officials shifted

New Delhi: Three immigration officials have been shifted to their parent departments by the Bureau of Immigration in connection with the human trafficking case involving suspended BJP MP Babubhai Katara.
The officials, including a Delhi Police official, were shifted to their parent departments after an internal inquiry by the Bureau found them responsible for the ''smooth'' passage of Katara on three occasions, sources said.
Katara was arrested on April 18 at the international airport here while allegedly trying to smuggle out a woman and a teenaged boy to Canada on his wife and son's passports.
The trio had cleared the BJP MP through immigration check on three occasions when he had traveled abroad and the internal probe had held them responsible, they said.
Katara was caught accidentally after Air India officials, who were checking the passports after a traveler misplaced her travel documents, found that the photo in the passport carried by the woman accompanying the MP did not match.
29/04/07 Press Trust of India/NDTV.com

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