Puri police comes across 'immigration' error

Puri: Functioning of immigration officials at New Delhi airport has come under scanner after Puri police recently stumbled upon a blunder committed by the former while scanning the passports and visas of some Korean nationals on January 2, 2010.
After verifying the documents of the 17-member Korean team upon their arrival at Delhi airport on January 2, the immigration department had stamped it "2 Jan, 2011" as the arrival date of those tourists in India.
The howler came to the notice of Puri police when the Koreans arrived at Puri on January 21 for holidaying. During the routine inquiry after the immediate arrival of foreign tourists in the beach town, the owner of Hotel Santana, where the tourists stayed, and police found that two out of the 17 passports of the Koreans described their "erroneous" arrival in India. TOI has photocopies of the erroneous stamps applied on the two visas.
"The erroneous stamps were found on visas of Jiyeon Cha and Doyeon Kim. The arrival date showed 2 Jan, 2011. We are verifying this and trying to communicate it to the immigration department," said Amulya Kumar Dhar, inspector-in-charge of sea beach police station.
The Koreans left Puri a few days ago. "This is a big blunder on part of the immigration officials. This appears to be a minor mistake, but the tourists might suffer a lot due to such callous frisking," said Srimanta Kumar Dash, owner of Hotel Santana.
31/01/10 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Feb 2010, Foreign Feb 2010