Acting on complaints that fake documents were being used to obtain visas, the Gujarat police carried out raids at 17 immigration consultancy firms in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Vadodara and seized passports and computer hardware.
The raids followed surveillance of a month by personnel from the state CID Crime, Additional DGP (CID Crime) Rajkumar Pandian said.
“Joint raids were held at 17 offices of visa agents. We seized 27 passports, 182 copies of passports, 53 computers and hard drives, 79 mark sheets and other documents. The raids were carried out on Friday by 17 teams with over 50 police personnel and computer experts as well as one SP and four Deputy SPs,” he told reporters.