Mumbai airport sees most forgery cases

Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport has earned the dubious distinction of having the maximum number of passport and visa-related forgery cases across all airports in the country between 2008 and 2010.
The airport witnessed 1,611 cases followed by Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) with 1,359 cases, according to a survey by the Zee Research Group. Chennai, Amritsar and Kolkata are next with 624, 190 and 96 cases respectively.
Statistics collected from the home ministry show that the number of fake passport and visa-related forgery cases has increased by 13.8% between 2008 and 2010. The figure was 1,246 in 2008; 1,292 in 2009 and 1,419 in 2010.
What has left officials worried is that the Mumbai airport also tops the list in terms of visa and passport-related cheating by foreigners (557). Delhi is second with 285 cases. It is followed by Chennai (120), Kolkata (26) and Amritsar (21).
09/01/12 Preety Acharya/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: airports Jan 2012