Hyderabad/New Delhi: Kathirkam Thasinthan, 24, of Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, from Colombo. While he was trying to board a connecting flight to New York, immigration officials at the IGI airport found that Kathirkam was travelling on a forged passport and apprehended him.
They also seized the forged Indian passport in the name of Adesh Goel. He was handed over to the IGI airport police. However, while he was being questioned by the Delhi airport police, Kathirkam managed to slip out of the police station located right next to the airport and sneaked back into the terminal.
Meanwhile, the IGI airport police, who realised that the Sri Lankan had escaped, sounded an alarm and started a frantic search for Kathirkam on all the roads out of the airport. While they were looking for him outside, Kathirkam checked in and boarded the flight to Hyderabad. The FRRO and CISF were informed of the incident only at around 7am on Saturday.
Police was sent an official complaint at around 2.30 pm. When security agencies started looking through the CCTV footage, they managed to identify the passenger and saw him first change his clothes and then leave for Hyderabad in another Air India flight at 5.40 pm.
A police team was dispatched to Hyderabad at 6 am on Sunday to bring the Lankan back to Delhi-. Kathirkam was immediately apprehended after he disembarked from the flight and was escorted.
01/08/11 Times of India
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