Indian daily The Statesman on Wednesday reported that a Bangladeshi national was stranded at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on Tuesday evening, unable to fly to Dhaka due to bureaucratic bungling.
It says Ishrat Ara Karim (36), an Indian national married to a Bangladeshi man, entered India with a handwritten passport on 11 February for treatment of some neurological ailment.
The Indian High Commission in Dhaka had issued her the passport and allowed her to travel to India. Trouble for Ishrat Ara started when she went to catch the return flight to Dhaka this evening. Immigration officials allowed her to board the Air India flight. But the airline officials stopped her from boarding the flight on the ground that she didn't have a machinereadable passport with computerised entries, the Statesman also said.
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It says Ishrat Ara Karim (36), an Indian national married to a Bangladeshi man, entered India with a handwritten passport on 11 February for treatment of some neurological ailment.
The Indian High Commission in Dhaka had issued her the passport and allowed her to travel to India. Trouble for Ishrat Ara started when she went to catch the return flight to Dhaka this evening. Immigration officials allowed her to board the Air India flight. But the airline officials stopped her from boarding the flight on the ground that she didn't have a machinereadable passport with computerised entries, the Statesman also said.
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