
RGIA immigration staff sniff out ‘dubious’ travellers
The Hindu
Fraudulent travel agents from across the country have made Hyderabad their main base to traffic people
The immigration staff of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport have become too familiar in differentiating between passengers who genuinely travel to their destinations and those who adopt dubious methods of travel.
A woman wearing bare essentials with a turmeric-laced cotton thread (pasupu thadu) around her neck as a symbol of her married status and also clad in a simple/old saree, and a man wearing old clothes and a pair of rubber slippers, are a sure-shot find to catch persons travelling on suspected documents.
People travelling to West Asian countries on forged visas has been significant and continuously worrisome, a senior immigration official said.

Former CM B.S. Yediyurappa had challenged the first information report registered on March 14, 2024, on the alleged incident that occurred on February 2, 2024, the chargesheet filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and the February 28, 2025, order of taking cognisance of offences afresh by the trial court.