Recently, a Bangladeshi woman was caught at the Rajiv Gandhi International (RGI) Airport in Hyderabad for obtaining fraudulent identity documents, including an Indian passport. The accused has been identified as Sonali Ballav. Sonali Ballav, 29, was arrested on October 16 while returning to India on flight 6E-1274 from Muscat, Oman.
A Bureau of Immigration officer at the Hyderabad airport became suspicious of Sonali’s identity during routine immigration checks. She was interrogated. Eventually it came to know that she was not an Indian citizen. Officials have identified Sonali as a Bangladeshi national from Manikganj Sadar, Bangladesh.
Sonali entered India illegally in 2015 through the Petrapole-Benapole border in West Bengal. From there it reached Delhi. Settled in Pandav Nagar, Delhi. A few days later she married Indian citizen Lakshmi Kant Ballav. After that she also fraudulently obtained key identity documents including PAN Card, Voter ID, Aadhaar Card, Indian Passport.
The woman chose Hyderabad as her entry point instead of Delhi, her usual place of residence. If this is done, the authorities suspect that there is no possibility of detection. But when the immigration officials at the Hyderabad airport expressed doubt about her identity, the real thing came out.
