A 24-year-old Indian man suspected of human trafficking reportedly failed to evade authorities after he tried to evade justice by disguising himself as an elderly person to board an Air Canada flight.
“Vigilant (federal police) personnel intercepted a Canada-bound passenger involved in human trafficking and identity theft. THE pax attempted to travel by posing as an elderly person and using false documents,” the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) said last week on X.
It was using the passport of a sixty-year-old that Guru Sewak Singh allegedly tried to board a flight from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, to Canada, reported the New York Post Friday.
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Except that in an attempt to imitate the appearance of the 67-year-old man in the image, the young suspect allegedly dyed his beard, in addition to adding glasses to hide his face.
But that would not have been enough to fool the police authorities, who would have noticed that the man in front of them did not match the image on the passport, rather belonging to Rashvindar Singh Sahota, from Punjab. It was mainly the texture of his young skin as well as the tone of his voice that would have tipped them off, reported Now Toronto.
After being taken aside, the young man reportedly revealed his true identity before being handed over to the Delhi police, according to the NY Post.
According to the American media, this is not the first time that an individual has tried to leave India using this ploy: in 2019, Jayesh Patel, 32, arrived at the same airport in a wheelchair, pretending to be a frail 81-year-old man who could no longer walk.
The authorities would have seen through his game since the fake octogenarian, who wanted to go to New York, avoided the gaze of the customs officers, and that “despite his gray hair, his skin seemed quite young, because there were practically no wrinkles on his face,” noted the NY Post.
