Varanasi, July 20 -- The Phulpur police in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district have revealed the arrest of an Afghan national who was illegally residing in India using a fake Indian passport.
The accused was attempting to travel from Varanasi to Sharjah using a fake Indian identity when he was caught during immigration checks.
Police said on Monday that during the departure immigration checks of Air India Express flight number IX-183 (Varanasi-Sharjah) at the Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Babatpur, on July 19, Bureau of Immigration (BOI) officials detained a suspicious person traveling on Indian passport number Y8558322.
Upon interrogation and verification of documents, his real identity was revealed as Abdul Rahman Taraki, so...