Ahmedabad: Birds might have a free run at the city airport, but 'kabootars' will now be easily hunted down here. Armed with a fingerprint scanner and an electronic passport reader, Ahmedabad airport, infamous as an easy gateway for people flying with forged documents, pledges to make flying impossible for illegal migrants.
The Bureau of Immigration (BOI) will soon provide the scanner to the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International airport. The scanner will record fingerprints of all international flyers flying in or out of Ahmedabad. The scanner, installed at all major international airports, will allow immigration officials to check previous fingerprint details of the flyer recorded at other airports. The electronic passport reader, which was installed recently, can read passports of all countries and ascertain its authenticity.
"After the new international terminal began operational last year, no case of people flying in or out of Ahmedabad with fake documents has been reported, except one case where a Rajasthan-based laborer was deported from Dubai airport. But looking at the notorious history of Ahmedabad airport the new machines were necessary to make it impossible to get away with fake documents," said a senior immigration official at Ahmedabad airport.
02/05/11 Ankur Jain/Times of India
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