Indian students stranded in China with fake tickets

Beijing: Nearly 150 Indian medical students are stranded in airports and other places in China after discovering that the air tickets they bought were fakes. At least one of the students has filed a case with the Beijing police against the main travel agent, who is a Bangladeshi national.
Two airlines, Emirates and Malaysian, have refused to recognise the e-tickets supplied by the agent when they tried to board the aircrafts on different days between June 29 and July 11.
The travel agent, Mohmmed Jabbar Miyan, operated through a network of students in medical colleges who acted as his sub-agents. One of these sub-agents, Sumeet, on Sunday filed a case of cheating against Mohmmed Jabbar Miyan with the Beijing police. Miyan, who also goes by the name of Farooq among the students, is believed to have vanished from the scene.
Officials at the Indian Embassy in Beijing have taken up the matter with the Bangladeshi Embassy and advised the students to report the full details of the case to the police, sources said.
13/07/08 Saibal Dasgupta/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Jul 2008, Foreign Jul 2008