Pawan Kumar
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How far will a father go in Mumbai to say goodbye to his son at the airport? On Friday, a South Mumbai resident went too far by posing as a security officer at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport and raising security worries.
Businessman and inhabitant of the VP Road neighbourhood, the accused Chintan Gandhi, was detained at the International Terminal’s T2 departures area after members of the Central Industrial Security Force found his fake ID card (CISF).
Gandhi was stopped at the terminal by CISF sub inspector Sumit Singh because people aren’t allowed past the point unless they are flying out or have a special permit. Gandhi replied that he was a CISF officer and even produced an ID card to prove it.
The card was made out in the name of Ramkumar, an assistant sub inspector with the CISF, according to Singh’s statement to the police. I looked at it, and it seemed false. I thus asked him for another kind of identification, which he said he lacked. I notified my superiors at once.
Gandhi later admitted to forging documents when he was escorted to see CISF inspector Avinash Ranjan. The incident raised security concerns among the authorities in view of the forthcoming New Year’s celebrations.
Gandhi explained to the CISF officials that his teenage son was travelling abroad for school and that he wanted to see him off until the boarding gate because he would be gone for a considerable amount of time. So, after morphing his image onto an image of a CISF ID card that he printed off from the internet, he laminated it, according to a Sahar police officer.
Gandhi begged the CISF to refrain from telling his kid about the incident. Without his son’s knowledge, he was taken away and given to the Sahar police. He was then taken into custody and booked.
Senior police inspector Sanjay Govilkar confirmed the incident and said Gandhi had been charged with cheating, forgery, and impersonation in accordance with the Indian Penal Code.
