New Delhi: A 32-year-old man working with a Mumbai-based company came up with a flawless plan, allowing himself and his girlfriend some quality time for romance amidst the exotic blue waters in the Maldives. Sounds like a really casual plan? Well, it isn’t.
The concerned person here, an engineer by profession, is already married and the plan consisted of keeping the wife oblivious of his Maldives masti and the extramarital affair as she was reportedly told that he was actually on an official trip to the island nation.
In an attempt to hide his well-planned trip to the blissful destination, he literally pulled off several pages from his passport, not knowing that doing so was a crime and can end him in prison.
On his arrival at the Mumbai airport, immigration authorities found several pages from his passport missing. As the latter was unable to provide any satisfactory explanation for the missing pages, he was promptly arrested and handed over to the Sahar police.
The man reportedly flew for vacationing with his girlfriend in the Maldives a few days ago, telling his spouse that he was leaving on an official trip. Though, he had to shorten the duration of his trip as his wife grew doubtful when he ignored most of her calls and decided to tear up several pages from his passport to cover his little secret.
On his arrival to Mumbai on Thursday night, the airport authorities found pages 3-6 and 31-34 removed from the document.
An n immigration officer told that the man intentionally tore the pages and has been booked for cheating and forgery under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
“He said that he was not aware that tearing up pages from the passport is a criminal offence”, a police official said.
For the unversed, since the passport is issued by the Indian government and is considered to be a property of the state, damaging it in any manner or forging it is an illegal act and can land you in jail.
