Rising deportations clip wings of over 10 Ahmedabad airport officials

Ahmedabad: Immigration officials at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (SVPI) are under fire for the rise in number of deportation involving passengers, who were cleared by the immigration wing at the airport. In the last six months alone, over ten officials have been removed from the immigration desk either for ‘inefficiency’ or for being ‘hand-in-glove’ with travel agents involved in illegal immigration.
A recent case of a couple, who were deported from Dubai last week, is another example of how easy it is to dupe immigration officials at SVPI airport. It was not sophisticated technology but simple interrogation that helped the Dubai immigration officials blow the cover of Mehul Gotecha, 31, a resident of Satellite and his girl friend Mital Panchal, 26.
The same couple, however, had easily managed to hoodwink the immigration officials at SVPI. Earlier in July, three people from Tamil Nadu who flew from SVPI airport were deported from Dubai after the trio were busted because of their accent. Two of them were originally from Sri Lanka but were traveling as Indians. In Dubai they were caught because their Tamil accent gave them away. Their accent was different from the Tamil ascent of Indians. However, the same trio had managed to escape detection at Ahmedabad immigration counter.
25/10/11 Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: airports Oct 2011, Foreign Oct 2011