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Man travels to S Africa on fake visa, deported

Source: Ahmedabad Mirror, 25/06/2019

According to the complaint filed by immigration officer Narendrakumar
at Airport police station, 33-year-old Aswat Mohammad had travelled to
South Africa in 2011 on a visitor visa and reportedly took asylum
there on the grounds of `weaker economic status in India and being a
Muslim`. He then started working in Johannesburg on a work permit.
There he applied for extension of his visa which was rejected by South
African authorities in 2017. He told officials that he had given his
passport to an agent named Altaf for visaformalities in South Africa
who returned his passport with a visa sticker.

He lived in South Africa for around 18 months after that. He came to
India in November 2018 and returned to South Africa on June 20 this
year. However, during checking at Johannesburg airport, his visa was
found to be fake. He was detained and kept in police custody and later
deported back to Ahmedabad. There, he washanded over to Airport
police. Aswat claimed he was unaware that the visa sticker he obtained
from Altaf was fake. Airport PI K C Rathwa told Mirror, `We have
registered the case and the accused (Aswat) will be produced in court.`

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