Overview

• Maria Khatun Mohammad Mansoor Ali entered India illegally in 1992 and lived under a forged Indian passport for 33 years
• She used the fraudulent passport to travel and secure employment abroad, including six years of work in Kuwait
• Immigration officials flagged discrepancies during her arrival from Kuwait on May 28 and took her into custody
• Sahar Police have charged her with passport fraud and are investigating how she evaded detection and whether a wider smuggling network was involved
• A separate hoax bomb threat on May 27 led to the arrest of a tailor at the same airport and prompted enhanced security measures