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Two Sri Lankan nationals were arrested by the migration officials astatine Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) portion attempting to committee a UK-bound formation utilizing passports bearing antithetic identities connected Monday.
The arrested men person been identified arsenic Piranavan Arunasalam, 24, and Livinsan Sithamparanathan, 22, some are drivers by profession. They were booked nether provisions of the Immigration Act, 1924, and handed implicit to the airdrome police.
According to the officials, the duo initially arrived astatine the airdrome to committee a formation to the Maldives and cleared migration utilizing their archetypal passports. After clearing immigration, they allegedly went to a washroom adjacent the duty-free area, wherever they exchanged passports with 2 Malaysian nationals identified arsenic Sukumaran Subramaniam and Chandrasegaran Annamalay.
The Sri Lankan nationals past attempted to committee a London-bound formation utilizing the exchanged passports. However, migration officials grew suspicious during a secondary cheque of their boarding passes and documents and detained them. Officials judge the 2 Malaysian nationals managed to permission the country aft exchanging passports. Efforts are present connected to way them down.
An probe is nether mode to find wherefore the 2 Sri Lankan nationals attempted to committee the formation utilizing Malaysian passports. Police fishy this whitethorn beryllium portion of a quality trafficking racket.
