Mumbai student booked for ‘tearing’ pages of her passport to hide details of her Thailand trip from college

The police said that when Ghatol gave her passport and boarding pass to an immigration officer, he observed that some pages of the passport were missing. The officer then took her to his seniors.

During the preliminary inquiry, it was revealed that Ghatol had torn the pages of her passport to hide from her college that she had visited Thailand in February. She had skipped her college exams that coincided with the trip by feigning illness.

“Her college was sending her to Singapore for an internship, and she was scared that if the college learnt about her Thailand trip, she might lose the internship. So, she tore the pages of her passport acknowledging her Thailand trip,” said a police officer.

Based on the complaint of the immigration officer, the Sahar police booked Ghatol under Section 12 of the Passports Act and Section 318(4) (cheating and dishonesty) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.