Foreigner remanded to police custody

By A Staff Reporter

IMPHAL | Aug 11

The chief judicial magistrate, Imphal West remanded a foreigner to police custody for six days for illegally entering Manipur and trying to flite to Kolkata via Guwahati by using fake driving license.

The accused foreigner, Sai Tun Win (34) son of Uyi Sar of Muse, Myanmar was arrested yesterday from Imphal airport, after airport security staff lodged a complaint that during a checking of ticket and IDs of passenger in departure entrance gate, one person arrived at the departure gate with a valid e-ticket.

According to the submission of the investigative officer (IO) of the case, airport security found some difference in his driving license and during checking the airport security staff found one driving license issued by Myanmar government in the name of Sai Tun Win and one passport of republic of the union of Myanmar in the same name from the detained person.

Though Sai tun Win possess passport of republic of the union of Myanmar his VISA was found already expired on April 22, 2017 and he could not produced any documents regarding the extension of his VISA, he added.

The IO state that during further interrogation the accused person disclosed that the fake driving license was issued by DTO, Churachanpur on August 20, 2015 and was given to him by one of his local friend at Myanmar.

On investigation the IO was found that photograph affixed on the fake license is tallied with the accused as well as the photographs affixed on the seized passport and Myanmar driving license.

The IO of the case prayed to the court to remanded the accused person to police custody for further investigation of the case and the court has granted the prayer of the IO for smooth investigation.