Over 130 held in 2025 for passport and visa fraud at IGI
New Delhi, Jan. 5 -- The IGI Airport unit of Delhi Police arrested more than 130 people in 2025, including travel agents and facilitators allegedly involved in illegal immigration networks operating across the country, police said on Saturday.
Police said the year-long operation targeted syndicates engaged in sending people abroad using forged visas, fake passports and manipulated documents.
Apart from immigration-related fraud, the unit also intensified action against touts and baggage theft at the airport. More than 300 cases were registered against touts, leading to over 400 arrests, while around 60 people were arrested in cases linked to theft of passenger baggage and cargo. Ground-handling staff of airlines were questioned in several cases to trace possible internal links, police said. Senior officers said the operation was different this year, as the IGI Airport unit, for the first time, focused on financial investigations to dismantle the economic backbone of organised fraud networks. Investigators traced money trails, identified suspicious banking activity and initiated action to seize properties believed to have been acquired using proceeds of crime.htc...
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