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Lankan held with immigration seals in Chennai
A Sri Lankan was arrested at the Chennai airport international
terminal after CISF personnel found him carrying two rubber stamps with
immigration permit seals wrapped in a paper in his pant pocket.
Airport sources said Nageem Abdul Sukkur, 41, who came to Chennai to
visit his uncle at Injambakkam cleared the customs and immigration
checks before the CISF stopped him at the security clearance area.
He was scheduled to take AI 273 flight to Colombo at 2.30 pm on
Thursday.
"He was found carrying two rubber stamps normally used by the
immigration officials to give permission to arriving and departing
passengers.
Initially, we thought that the passenger had stolen the rubber stamps
when he crossed the immigration counters, but on checking, we found all
the rubber stamps intact," an airport source said.
Sukkur on interrogation, informed the CISF that an airport official
had given him an order to make replica of those two rubber stamps and so
he was carrying them.
The CISF officials handed over the suspect to the Immigration
Department.
An industry expert said the passenger could be part of the team that
helps people with duplicate passports.
"While making duplicate passports for people, who want to return to
India, these men have to affix the Immigration Departure permit seal
from India so that they can land again.
He could be carrying these stamps for that purpose," the expert
added. Courtesy: Deccan Chronicle
Chemistry Gold for Purnima
The Council of the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon will award this
year's IChemC Gold Medal for a mid career chemist in recognition for
honorary services rendered to the Institute to Purnima Jayasingha
employed as a Senior Research Scientist at the Industrial Technology
Institute of Sri Lanka.
Jayasinha who qualified as a Graduate Chemist of the Institute of
Chemistry Ceylon in 1986 and obtained her M Phil degree from the Open
University of Sri Lanka. |