Mumbai: A 28-year-old girl was arrested on Sunday for allegedly tampering with the arrival date stamped on her passport. The police mentioned that Amber Sayad fudged the stamped report of the day on which she had landed on the metropolis airport final 12 months. She did this to cover from her household a visit to Goa she went on quickly after arriving from the Gulf final March, mentioned an officer. Tampering with any report on a passport is a criminal offense.
The matter got here to gentle final week — 11 months after she had reached India from Dubai. Sayad, who used to work in Dubai for the final three years, was speculated to fly again for work final week, on February 19. When she arrived at Chhatrapati Shivaji Worldwide Airport at Sahar, immigration officers grew suspicious on seeing her passport on the departure counter. Sayad was stopped from continuing forward and was questioned in regards to the fudged report within the passport. The police mentioned that when immigration officers questioned her in regards to the fudged entry, she initially tried to evade questions. “She later admitted that she had modified the date utilizing a rubber stamp. to maintain beneath wraps her secret journey to Goa with a pal,” mentioned a police officer.
Sayad, who has been working in Dubai for the previous three years, was to renew work within the Gulf nation.
Final 12 months, no sooner had she landed from Dubai on the Sahar airport on March 14 final 12 months, she left for Goa with a pal. “Her mom was not conscious that she had come all the way down to India, and definitely not that she had gone to Goa on a vacation,” mentioned an officer. “After a six-day vacation in Goa, Sayad returned to Mumbai on March 20. She fudged the stamp of the arrival date from Dubai and adjusted it to March 20,” mentioned the officer from Sahar police station.
After a day in police custody, the Andheri court docket on Monday despatched Sayad to judicial custody.
Her lawyer, Mastan Shaikh, filed her bail plea which is slated to return up for listening to on Thursday. Shaikh mentioned Sayad hails from a poor household and was to hitch work in Dubai as she is in dire want of cash after the lockdown. “The arrest has ruined her future,” he mentioned.