Mohali, April 11 -- Police have booked a Dhakoli man for using fake passports to settle abroad, including one using his cousin's details, which ended in his cousin getting blacklisted.

The accused, identified as Kuldeep Singh of Adarsh Nagar, Dhakoli, Zirakpur, has been booked on the complaint of his cousin Sucha Singh of Dau Majra village, Kharar, said police.

The accused has been deported twice from Japan for overstaying, they added.

The forgery came to light when Sucha Singh got blacklisted in America and Canada after a fake passport was reported in his name. In his complaint in 2022, Sucha Singh told police that he got his passport made in 1972 and went to Hong Kong in the same year, after which he shifted to Canada in 2004 and set...