Saturday, November 04, 2006

[India] Missing passports at RPO: Preliminary probe hints at role of insider, agents / Express News Service, 2 Nov 2006

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=207961
"THE passport theft could be a crime committed by one of the passport agents in connivance with some insider of the Regional Passport Office. The Chandigarh Police have got such indications in their preliminary investigations regarding the theft of 48 passports from RPO recently. Letters have been despatched to all those 48 applicants whose passports were found missing from the RPO building in Sector 34. “We suspect that a few of these passports bore fake addresses, fake applicants or fake particulars. We have despatched letters at all the 48 addresses and asked the applicants to join investigations. By doing this, we would be able to differentiate between genuine applicants and fake applicants." [Brief]