To Hide Travel History From Wife, Pune Man Tears Pages From Passport, Ends Up In Jail

In another episode of “Cheating Lessons,” a Punekar was prohibited to board a flight on his travel to the Maldives as the immigration officials of Mumbai International Airport found at least 10 pages missing from his passport. 

Identifying as Samdarshi Yadav, 32, he had allegedly torn and destroyed the pages from his passport from 2019 thinking that his wife must be kept away from his travel history. 

Pune Man Passport

With reference to this bizarre incident, the FIR and the remand application copy held that Yadav who tore the passport book from pages 3 to 6 and 31 to 34, wanted to hide his travel history of flying to Thailand. 

According to TOI, produced before Andheri Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Friday, Yadav was released on rupees 25,000 bail surety. Booked under IPC sections 420 for cheating, 465 for committing forgery, 468 and 475 for damaging a genuine document on the electronic record, Yadav’s lawyer, Sanjay Tiwari claimed that his passport pages were missing because of loose binding. 

Earlier in 2020, reports revealed the story of a man being arrested for travelling from the US to India carrying a forged passport. He was allegedly around the world for 18 years committing forgery. The man identified as Kirti Kumar Patel, 61, travelled from Ahmedabad to the US on someone else’s passport, reports said. Patel’s lawyers, however, sought an anticipatory bill claiming that he suffered from diabetes and liver problems. 

In another report by the Business Standard dated 2019, a passenger travelling from Bangkok was arrested at Kolkata airport after police found out that some pages of his passport were torn. 

The man, having no explanation on why the pages of the passport were missing, was alleged to have been working as a detective in an agency. The man also admitted that he himself had torn the pages of the passport. 

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Anyone found in possession of a fake passport or other travel document faces a sentence of at least one year in prison and up to five years in prison, as well as a fine of at least ten thousand rupees and up to fifty thousand rupees, or both, as stated in the Passports Act of 1967.