Mumbai: Airport Authorities Intercept Woman With Bogus Certificates En Route To London; Investigation Continues

Mumbai, 10th October 2023: A young woman who was travelling to London on the basis of fake certificates was detained by the officials of the immigration department at the airport on Monday. It was revealed that the Vice-Chancellor who signed the academic certificate submitted by the woman was not working at the university during that period, and the woman was moving to London on the basis of forged certificates. In this case, a complaint has been registered against a woman at the Sahar police station.

Vaishali Parekh, a citizen of Gujarat, was going from Dubai to London on Monday. At the time of document verification at the airport, an official from the immigration department noticed that a woman was travelling on a skilled worker visa. Being suspicious of her documents, he asked her to show all the details.

After her checking, the official found that the woman had graduated from Gujarat University in 2010. And on her certificate, there was the signature of Vice-Chancellor O.P. Kohli. Suspicious, the immigration officer checked the website of Gujarat University to find that Kamla Beniwal was the vice chancellor of Gujarat University from 2010 to 2011. Hence, the woman’s educational certificate was found to be fake.

The woman had obtained a skilled worker visa by submitting a forged certificate to the UK Commercial Attorney. Therefore, a complaint was made to the police in this matter. Sahar Police registered a case for creating forged documents. The woman revealed in the investigation that she had received the forged certificate from Ankur Patel, an agent in London. Police are investigating further in this regard.