Hi Guys,
This can happen not only in Air India, but can happen in any airlines. So be careful when ever you travel. Good luck.
This is a well organized conspiracy by Indian Immigration, Police, Customs and Air India staff with Networking at, all the Indian International Airports. Be watchful whenever you give your passport to Immigration/Customs/Air India staff. The passport can be easily tampered and can create trouble to you. Our officials have found easy way of making money from NRIs.
This is the way it works. At the time of the passenger's departure, if the passenger is not looking at the officer while he is stamping the passport, the officer very cleverly tears away one of the page from the passport. When the passenger leaves the immigration counter, the case is reported on his computer terminal with full details. Now all over India they have got full details of the passenger with Red Flag flashing on the passport number entered by the departure immigration officer. They have made their money by doing above. On arrival next time, he is interrogated. Subject to the passenger's period of stay abroad, his income and standing etc., the price to get rid of the problem is settled by the Police and Immigration people. If someone argues, his future is spoiled because there are always some innocent fellows who think the honesty is the basis of getting justice in India.
Please advise every passenger to be careful at the airport. Whenever they handover the passport to the counters of Air India, or immigration or the customs, they must be vigilant, should not remove eyes from the passport even if the officer in front tries to divert their attention.
Also, please pass this information to all friends, media men and important politicians. Every month 20-30 cases are happening all over India to rob the NRIs.
Similar case has happened with Aramco's Arifuddin. He was travelling with his family. They had six passports. They got the visa of America and decided to go via Hyderabad from Jeddah. They reached Hyderabad. Stayed about a month and left for States. When they reached States, the pages of the American visa on his wife's passport was missing. At the time of departure from Hyderabad, it was there, without which neither the airline nor the immigration allow them to leave. Whole family had to return to Hyderabad helplessly. On arrival at Bombay back, they were caught by the police and now it is over 2 months, they are running after the Police, Immigration officers and the Courts. On going into details with him, he found out the following. One cannot imagine, neither can believe, that the Indian Immigration dept can play such a nasty game to harass the innocent passengers. All the passengers travelling to & fro India via Bombay and Hyderabad must be aware of this conspiracy.
Every month 15 to 20 cases are taking place, at each mentioned Airport, of holding the passengers in the crime of tearing away the passport pages. On interviewing some of them, none of them was aware of what had happened. They don't know who, when and why tore away the pages from the middle of the passport. One can imagine the sufferings of such people at the hands of the immigration, police and the court procedures in India after that. The number of cases are increasing in the last 2-3 years. People who are arriving at the immigration, they are questioned and their passports are being held and they have to go in interrogations. Obviously, the conspiracy started about 2 to 3 years ago, now the results are coming.
An official source who did not want to disclose his name & identity said that this is a well planned conspiracy in which the Immigration dept. and the Police dept. are hand in glove. Some of the Air India counter staff too is involved in this conspiracy.
