She used to do menial jobs in the US, including working on Dunkin donuts and several motels, besides working as maid. “Kalol-based Rathore returned with an emergency certificate. She also managed to get a fake verification done for the passport. According to police, she got a fake passport made in India in the same year for a few lakhs of rupees and got it couriered to herself. Rathore had gone to the US in 1990 on a six-month travel visa but never returned. During investigation, her passport was found to be forged and she was arrested but now she is out on bail. Yashoda Rathore, 70, was caught with a fake passport when she returned from the US last week. The cases reveal that the US and the UK continue to be favourite destinations of aspiring emigrants and those caught had travelled 10-15 years back on forged or identical passports. In all these cases, the passengers had arrived from the US on an emergency certificate.
AHMEDABAD: After a brief lull, incidents of people travelling on fake passports have resurfaced in the city as cases against two women have been registered recently while a complaint against a man is being investigated.
