The Bangalore police have arrested a Sri Lankan, who was deported from Dubai after immigration authorities in the United Arab Emirates found him travelling on a fake visa.

Nimala Kasan (21) of Jaffna, who was holding an Indian passport, boarded Emirates Airline flight EK-518 here on Friday. When he was to change flight in Dubai for Paris, the immigration officials there discovered that he was travelling on a fake visa, police sources here told The Hindu on Monday.

On his arrival here in the early hours of Saturday, immigration officials lodged a complaint and handed over him over to the airport police. Kasan was arrested under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Passport Act.

A magistrate remanded him to judicial custody.

During interrogation, Kasan told the police that Senthil of Chennai had got him the fake visa and advised him to board a flight in Bangalore, the sources said.

Kasan and his parents have been living in Chennai for the past five years. Investigations are on to ascertain how he secured a passport in Chennai. Source: Hindu

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