Two Chinese held with `fake' Aadhar cards

SNS, SILIGURI,16 MARCH: Siliguri police have been interrogating two Chinese nationals detained at the Bagdogra Airport with alleged fake Aadhar cards and as they tried to board a flight today.

Officials of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) apprehended the duo at the airport and handed them over to the Siliguri Police, police said.

"Their suspicious movement at the airport made CISF officials examine and frisk them. Examining their travel documents, the CISF came to know that they were Chinese citizens and had been carrying fake Indian Aadhar cards. One C/O Zhang Jun, 39, and it mentioned an address in Uttar Pradesh," sources said.

The card had the address: C/O Zhang  GREEN PARADISO, Tugalpur, Gautam   Buddha Nagar, UP-201310. Another man was identified as Kaileng.

"It (Aadhaar cards) appeared to he fake as per the CISF and they were handed over to the police," Airport Director Subramani P said.

Sources said both the Chinese citizens had arrived at Bagdogra from Kathmandu in Nepal yesterday, with the help of two "Nepali speaking persons" and they had stayed in a hotel at Bagdogra near Siliguri.

According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) of the Siliguri Metropolitan Police, Kumar Bhushan Singh, police have detained the duo for further interrogation, and to register cases under relevant Sections of the law.

'They are Chinese nationals and they came from Nepal. Travel records show they had travelled to Karachi in Pakistan too. They had a plan to ready some forged documents by using the Aadhaar card. We are trying to know more about their plans, like where they planned to go from the Bagdogra Airport," Mr Singh said.