Mumbai: More than a month after a Londonbound flyer mysteriously disappeared from the Mumbai International Airport minutes before boarding the flight, police say the passenger could have been a Sri Lankan national residing in the UK on asylum.
The security agencies, including the Customs and the Immigration, panicked when it emerged that the flyer, Christephen Vinod Raj, who was booked on a British Airways flight BA 198 on August 2, walked out of the airport while the airline officials checked his passport (UK bound flyer 'escapes' from airport (Mumbai Mirror, September 7).
The Immigration sources said that Raj was carrying a passport issued by a European nation, and the airline sources wanted to check its authenticity.
Compounding the mystery, a person named Christephen Vinod Raj flew to Kathmandu on Jet Airways flight 9W 266, the same day, using an Indian passport.
24/09/13 Bipin Kumar Singh/Mumbai Mirror
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The security agencies, including the Customs and the Immigration, panicked when it emerged that the flyer, Christephen Vinod Raj, who was booked on a British Airways flight BA 198 on August 2, walked out of the airport while the airline officials checked his passport (UK bound flyer 'escapes' from airport (Mumbai Mirror, September 7).
The Immigration sources said that Raj was carrying a passport issued by a European nation, and the airline sources wanted to check its authenticity.
Compounding the mystery, a person named Christephen Vinod Raj flew to Kathmandu on Jet Airways flight 9W 266, the same day, using an Indian passport.
24/09/13 Bipin Kumar Singh/Mumbai Mirror
