Siwan man booked by Lucknow police for defying journey ban to Yemen | Lucknow Information
LUCKNOW: A 28-year-old resident of Siwan district of Bihar was booked by Sarojini Nagar police of Lucknow for breaching the Yemen journey ban.
Recognized as Afjal Shah, the accused passenger was caught by group of immigration assistant officer (IAO) Ganesh Mishra and junior IAO Amarjeet Singh at Chaudhary Charan Singh worldwide airport (CCSIA), Lucknow, on Friday evening, after he alighted from an IndiGo flight that got here from Dubai.
Based on sources, the accused passenger has an Indian passport, and had gone to Yemen in 2022, the place he was incomes round 272,000 Yemeni Rial (round Rs 90,000) per thirty days as labourer. “He went to Dubai in 2022 on a vacationer visa from Mumbai, after which took an everyday Yemeni visa to work there,” stated the supply.
The immigration division of CCSIA have seized Afjal’s passport and can dispatch it to Patna passport seva kendra to cancel it.
Shailendra Giri, SHO, Sarojini Nagar, stated, “Throughout questioning, the accused claimed that he was helped by a Mumbai-based agency to succeed in Dubai after which additional to Yemen.”
“Afjal has been booked beneath part 12/5 of the Passport Act 1967 and additional questioning is on,” he added.
The central authorities has banned journey to Yemen since 2017. In 2016, Father Tom Uzhunnalil, a Kerala state priest, was kidnapped by terrorists from Aden, which triggered a journey ban to the nation.
Until February 2023, the federal government has seized a complete of 372 passports of those that have travelled to Yemen over the previous few years, violating the journey ban to the nation. However, the GOI has additionally launched 102 passports out of the whole seized ones.
