Gujarat man held at Delhi Airport with fake Portuguese passport

Ahmedabad: A man from Chaklasi town of Kheda district was arrested at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport for using forged documents and a fake Portuguese passport to travel to the United Kingdom since 2009.

The accused, Nishit Patel, had stolen the identity of Ritesh Bicu, an Indian with Portuguese roots, and used it to obtain a fake passport. According to the FIR filed by IGI Airport Police, Patel had been traveling between India and London via Nepal for the past 15 years to bypass Indian immigration. He was detained on April 5 during an immigration check in Delhi after officers spotted discrepancies in his documents, including an Indian voter ID card.

The accused first traveled to the UK on his Indian passport in 2009 and later acquired the fake Portuguese passport. He even forged a marriage certificate claiming that Bicu was married to Khushbu Patel, his real wife.

He was caught upon arriving in Delhi and has been booked under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), along with provisions of the Passports Act, for forgery, identity fraud, and cheating. DeshGujarat