Passport Fraud

As many as 3 agents and a passenger were arrested in the national capital for duping people on the pretext of sending them to foreign shores, said the officials on Wednesday.

A court on Monday granted three weeks to Delhi police to procure requisite sanctions from the authorities concerned to prosecute Sushil Ansal, convicted in the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire which killed 59 people, for allegedly playing fraud while getting

The CBI has carried out searches at three locations in Madurai after booking Veeraputhiran, Senior Superintendent, RPO, Madurai.

Delhi Police in its chargesheet has said that businessman Sushil Ansal had deliberately concealed the information regarding criminal proceedings pending against him and also his conviction in his declaration in a passport application form.

The Ministry of External Affairs revoked the passport of diamantaire Nirav Modi, the main accused in the USD 2-billion PNB fraud case, and it has no means to verify his travels, if any, the government told the Lok Sabha Wednesday.

Fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi, accused in the Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank fraud case, is still an Indian citizen despite holding an Antigua and Barbuda passport, an Indian official told Reuters, adding the government is pushing for his extradition.

Experts and government officials have expressed concern that the passport numbers, in concert with the other personal data compromised by the hack, could pose serious risks of identity theft.

Mehul Choksi, accused in a Rs 13,000 crore bank fraud, illegally held an Antiguan passport even when his Indian passport had not been cancelled, investigators have said.

The passport office at Mumbai had issued a passport valid for 10 years to fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi in 2015 without a police verification report, Mumbai police said on Saturday without elaborating why he was exempted.

India was informed by the US about fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi's move to Antigua on Monday, sources have told NDTV. Choksi, wanted for a Rs. 13,500 crore bank fraud along with his nephew Nirav Modi, may have bought citizenship from Antigua for Rs 1.3 to 1.7 crore, suspect investigators. With a passport from the country, he can travel freel...

Diamond trader Mehul Choksi, wanted for a Rs 13,500 crore bank fraud along with his nephew Nirav Modi, has moved to Antigua and got a local passport, reported news agency Press Trust of India, quoting sources.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has written to several European countries seeking help in tracing billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi even as it asserted that he did not have more than one Indian passport in his possession.

Fugitive jeweler Nirav Modi managed to travel through several countries even though information about his passport being cancelled by India was flashed in the Interpol central database on February 24, the CBI said Monday.

Agencies probing the alleged $ 2-billion PNB fraud have detected that absconding diamond merchant Nirav Modi possessed at least half-a-dozen Indian passports and a fresh FIR is being mulled against him for this offence, officials said today.

The ED will also move a special court in Mumbai to seek an official declaration to categorise Modi as a "fugitive" on the basis of the prosecution complaint

As many as 3 agents and a passenger were arrested in the national capital for duping people on the pretext of sending them to foreign shores, said the officials on Wednesday.

A court on Monday granted three weeks to Delhi police to procure requisite sanctions from the authorities concerned to prosecute Sushil Ansal, convicted in the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire which killed 59 people, for allegedly playing fraud while getting

The CBI has carried out searches at three locations in Madurai after booking Veeraputhiran, Senior Superintendent, RPO, Madurai.

Delhi Police in its chargesheet has said that businessman Sushil Ansal had deliberately concealed the information regarding criminal proceedings pending against him and also his conviction in his declaration in a passport application form.

The Ministry of External Affairs revoked the passport of diamantaire Nirav Modi, the main accused in the USD 2-billion PNB fraud case, and it has no means to verify his travels, if any, the government told the Lok Sabha Wednesday.

Fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi, accused in the Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank fraud case, is still an Indian citizen despite holding an Antigua and Barbuda passport, an Indian official told Reuters, adding the government is pushing for his extradition.

Experts and government officials have expressed concern that the passport numbers, in concert with the other personal data compromised by the hack, could pose serious risks of identity theft.

Mehul Choksi, accused in a Rs 13,000 crore bank fraud, illegally held an Antiguan passport even when his Indian passport had not been cancelled, investigators have said.

The passport office at Mumbai had issued a passport valid for 10 years to fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi in 2015 without a police verification report, Mumbai police said on Saturday without elaborating why he was exempted.

India was informed by the US about fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi's move to Antigua on Monday, sources have told NDTV. Choksi, wanted for a Rs. 13,500 crore bank fraud along with his nephew Nirav Modi, may have bought citizenship from Antigua for Rs 1.3 to 1.7 crore, suspect investigators. With a passport from the country, he can travel freel...

Diamond trader Mehul Choksi, wanted for a Rs 13,500 crore bank fraud along with his nephew Nirav Modi, has moved to Antigua and got a local passport, reported news agency Press Trust of India, quoting sources.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has written to several European countries seeking help in tracing billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi even as it asserted that he did not have more than one Indian passport in his possession.

Fugitive jeweler Nirav Modi managed to travel through several countries even though information about his passport being cancelled by India was flashed in the Interpol central database on February 24, the CBI said Monday.

Agencies probing the alleged $ 2-billion PNB fraud have detected that absconding diamond merchant Nirav Modi possessed at least half-a-dozen Indian passports and a fresh FIR is being mulled against him for this offence, officials said today.

The ED will also move a special court in Mumbai to seek an official declaration to categorise Modi as a "fugitive" on the basis of the prosecution complaint