A passenger bound for an international flight landed in trouble at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport after immigration officers quizzed him about Maharashtra, the state listed on his passport,
and he failed to answer even basic questions.
The passenger was scheduled to fly to Kabul on Kam Air flight RQ-4402. After checking in his baggage, he proceeded to the Bureau of Immigration counter for document verification, where his ordeal began.
According to a senior airport security officer, the passport identified the traveller as Mohammad Rasool Najeeb Khan, with an address in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, and Mumbai listed as his birthplace.
However, the immigration officer grew suspicious the moment the man spoke. His manner of speaking showed neither a Mumbai influence nor any trace of Marathi, raising doubts about his identity.
To verify, the officer asked him several questions related to Maharashtra, but the passenger failed to answer even one. Convinced something was amiss, the immigration staff detained him for further questioning.
During interrogation, it was revealed that the man was not from Maharashtra at all but from Afghanistan. He had allegedly procured an Indian passport illegally using a Mumbai address. Following this discovery, immigration authorities handed him over to the IGI Airport Police for further investigation.
