Chennai:
Police today claimed to have busted a fake passport and visa racket with the arrest of six Sri Lankan Tamils residing in Chennai.
Police said they were on a lookout for persons who had obtained the fake travel documents.
The gang, which charged Rs 30,000 per 'passport', was nabbed on a tip-off that its members used these fake passports and sometimes fake visas also to send fellow Sri Lankans and others to foreign countries, a police release said.
Of the six arrested, two of them had earlier served prison terms for the same crime.
The six -- identified as Mohammed Abubaker Siddique, Devasagayam, Jayasekar, Rajan, Krishnamurthy and Sivarangan -- were produced before a court which remanded them to judicial custody, the release said.
Action would be taken against beneficiaries of the racket since holding such fake documents was illegal, it said.
Police said they were on a lookout for persons who had obtained the fake travel documents.
The gang, which charged Rs 30,000 per 'passport', was nabbed on a tip-off that its members used these fake passports and sometimes fake visas also to send fellow Sri Lankans and others to foreign countries, a police release said.
Of the six arrested, two of them had earlier served prison terms for the same crime.
The six -- identified as Mohammed Abubaker Siddique, Devasagayam, Jayasekar, Rajan, Krishnamurthy and Sivarangan -- were produced before a court which remanded them to judicial custody, the release said.
Action would be taken against beneficiaries of the racket since holding such fake documents was illegal, it said.
