Teen uses forged documents to obtain a Canadian student visa, arrested

 

The Canadian government has identified 300 cases of visa fraud by Indian students.

 

Voice 9, Mumbai: Mumbai Immigration officers have arrested a 19-year-old student on suspicion of using fake mark sheets to get a student visa to Canada. A Gujarat-based visa and immigration agent has also been investigated by the police for allegedly organizing the mark sheets.

Immigration officials afterward informed the police, who filed an arrest warrant in the case. A case has been filed under Indian Penal Code Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (forgery), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), and 471 (using a forged document or electronic record as real).

On the other hand, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) found 300 cases in which Indian students who arrived in Canada between 2017 and 2020 reportedly used forged credentials to get study visas. According to a Free Press Journal article, CBSA first evaluated 2000 cases where fake documents may have been used to get a student visa and limited it down to '300 cases of concern' based on public tip-offs.

The young man was then undergoing a thorough investigation, during which he confessed that an Ahmedabad-based agent had obtained the phony mark sheets for him in order for him to obtain the visa.

According to the police, the complainant in the case is SS Pandey, an immigration officer at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. The adolescent arrived at the immigration office on Tuesday and handed over his Indian passport and boarding pass for verification. The person was meant to take an aircraft from Paris to Toronto. When the official questioned him about why he was in Canada and how many grades he had received in Class X and XII examinations, he could not provide adequate answers, according to the authorities.

Immigration officials then informed the police and got an offense registered in the matter. A case has been registered under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (forgery), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), and 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) of the Indian Penal Code.