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The arrested accused has been identified as Ajay Chandrashekhar Bhatia, a resident of Linking Road in Bandra (West). He has been booked for forgery and cheating, and remanded to police custody till March 12. According to the police, Bhatia attempted to facilitate the illegal immigration of a Gujarat-based woman to the US, by posing as her husband in a visa application submitted to the US Consulate in Mumbai.
“On September 18 last year, Bhatia applied for a visa to the US consulate and submitted forged documents showing him to be the husband of one Chandrikaben Kalabhai Choudhary, a resident of Valsad in Gujarat. However this visa was rejected by the consulate. Bhatia had been promised a sum of Rs 2 lakh by Yousuf Akram Baig and Altaf Shaik (arrested accused in the case) to do this job,” said Senior Police Inspector, Ramesh Mahale, of the Crime Branch Unit 1.
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