Navy officers were kingpins of visa racket, say cops; court extends police custody
The Hindu
Magistrate's court extends police custody of Navy officers in visa fraud case till July 9 in Mumbai.
The two Navy officers arrested in an alleged visa racket case were the "kingpins" of the crime, police told a court in Mumbai on July 5 while seeking extension of their remand.
The magistrate's court extended the police custody of Lieutenant Commander Vipin Dagar and Sub Lieutenant Braham Jyoti till July 9.
They were allegedly part of a syndicate that helped obtain visas for Indians seeking to work illegally in South Korea, the crime branch of city police has claimed.
Besides the two Navy officers, Simran Teji, Ravi Kumar and Deepak Mehra alias Dogra are the other accused held in the case.
All five were produced before additional chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Patil after their earlier custody ended.
While seeking extension of the police remand, the police told the court that the two naval personnel were the kingpins of the racket.
Dagar and Jyoti purchased a stamp-making machine from Visakhapatnam when they were posted there and used it to make forged documents needed for visa applications, they said.