New Delhi: Six persons were arrested in connection with issuance of fake immigration stamps and 62 passports and 28 fake stamps were seized, the police said today.

Those arrested have been identified as Saurav, an IELTS coach; Vicky, a herbal products businessman, and agents Sachin Kumar and Mukesh Goyal, they said. 

A couple, Ravinder Singh and his wife Sunita Kumari, who wanted to travel to Canada, were also arrested for getting the forged immigration stamp from the agents, the police said. On the intervening night of March 1 and 2, a complaint was received about suspected fake and forged Indian immigration stamp in respect of two Indian nationals Sunita Kumari and Ravinder Singh, who were seeking departure to Canada on the strength of Canadian visit visa by Air Canada, Sanjay Bhatia, DCP (IGIA), said.

During scrutiny of travel documents, it was found that there was no travel history of the couple in the immigration passenger log and the Indian immigration stamps affixed on their passports were fake and forged, he said.

Bhatia said Kumari and Singh wanted to settle in Canada and approached their friend Shyam who introduced them to an agent, Vicky, who ran a shop in Kurukshetra, Haryana. 

Vicky took Rs 6 lakh from them on the pretext of arranging Canadian visas. He arranged for another agent, Sachin Kumar, who took the couple to Chandigarh and arranged for their visa. 

He said Vicky disclosed that it was Kumar who procured fake immigration stamps and placed the same on the passports. Kumar, who was in touch with various agents in Mohali and Kurukshetra, used to take passports of clients on the pretext of preparing file and through agent Saurav and others used to affix fake immigration stamps of various countries on passports to create a fake travel history.