Panaji: Even as Goa is working hard to promote itself as a tourist friendly destination, a British passport holder has complained that an immigration department official demanded and took a $100 bribe to permit her to board a charter flight earlier this month.
In her complaint to SP (immigration) Tony Fernandes, British citizen Fatima Fernandes alleged that though she had a valid air ticket, on March 7, 2010, an immigration official at Dabolim airport asked for a bribe of $100 to allow her to board the charter flight to UK. Fatima said she was allowed to board the flight only after she paid the money in Indian currency to a PSI in the immigration department. Following the complaint, the police have issued the PSI a memo and sought to know why disciplinary action shouldn’t be initiated against him.
Fatima had arrived in Goa on February 5 by a Monarch charter flight from UK and had a return ticket for March 7 by a Thomson flight.
29/03/10 Preetu Venugopalan Nair/Times of India
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