Courtesy: Daily Times
KARACHI: Immigration personnel held Lollywood actress Meera at the Karachi airport for at least two hours for questioning as she had two passports on her name on arrival from the US.
According to the law, she might face three years imprisonment with penalty.
The staff of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) immigration cell seized both the passports at the Karachi airport.
Meera, a prominent film actress who has also worked in the Indian film industry, has landed into trouble again after a recent marriage scandal.
The immigration personnel intercepted her at the airport on arrival to Karachi from US via Dubai in a flight EK-606 and released her after questioning. They have confiscated both her passports and sent them to the issuing authority in Islamabad for proper investigation and verification where it would be decided as to what should be done with her for committing fraud with the passport cell.
According to the law, her punishment depends on the investigation or the case that would be registered against her.
She was issued the first passport in 2006 and upon a complaint about missing of the passport she was issued another passport in 2008. As per rules, no one can use more than one passport but despite this, she had two passports. During questioning she told the officials, her employee had found the lost passport and had given it to her while she was abroad so she could not inform the concerned authorities.
FIA Immigration Assistant Director Dr Mushtaq Sheikh told Daily Times that Meera went to the US on her second passport and returned on the previous one. “The passport record showed that she was using two passports and we on the directives of Immigration Cell DG, according to the 6/1/C of the Passport Act, seized both of her passports and later released her after questioning for two hours,” Sheikh informed. “We were only ordered to seize her passports and it depends on the investigation, which will determine her punishment.”
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Meera May Be Facing Jail Time For Using Two Passports
Courtesy: Daily Times
KARACHI: Immigration personnel held Lollywood actress Meera at the Karachi airport for at least two hours for questioning as she had two passports on her name on arrival from the US.
According to the law, she might face three years imprisonment with penalty.
The staff of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) immigration cell seized both the passports at the Karachi airport.
Meera, a prominent film actress who has also worked in the Indian film industry, has landed into trouble again after a recent marriage scandal.
The immigration personnel intercepted her at the airport on arrival to Karachi from US via Dubai in a flight EK-606 and released her after questioning. They have confiscated both her passports and sent them to the issuing authority in Islamabad for proper investigation and verification where it would be decided as to what should be done with her for committing fraud with the passport cell.
According to the law, her punishment depends on the investigation or the case that would be registered against her.
She was issued the first passport in 2006 and upon a complaint about missing of the passport she was issued another passport in 2008. As per rules, no one can use more than one passport but despite this, she had two passports. During questioning she told the officials, her employee had found the lost passport and had given it to her while she was abroad so she could not inform the concerned authorities.
FIA Immigration Assistant Director Dr Mushtaq Sheikh told Daily Times that Meera went to the US on her second passport and returned on the previous one. “The passport record showed that she was using two passports and we on the directives of Immigration Cell DG, according to the 6/1/C of the Passport Act, seized both of her passports and later released her after questioning for two hours,” Sheikh informed. “We were only ordered to seize her passports and it depends on the investigation, which will determine her punishment.”
KARACHI: Immigration personnel held Lollywood actress Meera at the Karachi airport for at least two hours for questioning as she had two passports on her name on arrival from the US.
According to the law, she might face three years imprisonment with penalty.
The staff of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) immigration cell seized both the passports at the Karachi airport.
Meera, a prominent film actress who has also worked in the Indian film industry, has landed into trouble again after a recent marriage scandal.
The immigration personnel intercepted her at the airport on arrival to Karachi from US via Dubai in a flight EK-606 and released her after questioning. They have confiscated both her passports and sent them to the issuing authority in Islamabad for proper investigation and verification where it would be decided as to what should be done with her for committing fraud with the passport cell.
According to the law, her punishment depends on the investigation or the case that would be registered against her.
She was issued the first passport in 2006 and upon a complaint about missing of the passport she was issued another passport in 2008. As per rules, no one can use more than one passport but despite this, she had two passports. During questioning she told the officials, her employee had found the lost passport and had given it to her while she was abroad so she could not inform the concerned authorities.
FIA Immigration Assistant Director Dr Mushtaq Sheikh told Daily Times that Meera went to the US on her second passport and returned on the previous one. “The passport record showed that she was using two passports and we on the directives of Immigration Cell DG, according to the 6/1/C of the Passport Act, seized both of her passports and later released her after questioning for two hours,” Sheikh informed. “We were only ordered to seize her passports and it depends on the investigation, which will determine her punishment.”
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