NEW DELHI, Mar 16: Two Chinese nationals, who were allegedly travelling with fake Aadhaar cards, were detained at Bagdogra Airport in West Bengal’s Siliguri on Tuesday morning, police said.
The Aadhaar cards had Uttar Pradesh addresses.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) who detained the two men said they were trying to board a flight to go to Ghaziabad in UP bordering with Delhi. The men were identified as Zhang Jun (39) and Kaileng (42).
Officials who checked the travel documents said they had travelled between Karachi from Kathmandu on March 3 and March 14.
Kunwar Bhusan Singh, deputy commissioner of police (west), Siliguri, said, “Two Chinese nationals have been detained as there were discrepancies in their documents. We are verifying the documents. After a thorough enquiry we will start a case under relevant sections of the law.”
The men reached Kathmandu on March 14. They came to Siliguri on Monday (March 15) where they checked into a hotel. The hotel rooms were reserved in the names of two Nepali nationals who were travelling with them, officials said. The Nepalese nationals, however, left for their country.
The CISF handed the Chinese men to the local police for further investigation.
(Manas Dasgupta)