Six months jail for using forged passport

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a deported Bangladeshi to six months in jail, followed by deportation, for using a forged passport.

He had entered the country illegally and was arrested for annoying the police with calls about bogus murders and assaults.

According to the records, on May 2, 2011, Dubai Police’s Operation Room received a number of calls from a certain mobile number about murders, assaults and thefts.

The holder of the number told the police that the number is being used by his compatriot AT.

On May 10, police arrested ATA, 26, jobless, who presented a photocopy of a passport with the name of Anwar Hussain. The photocopy carried a valid residence visa with the holder’s name but with the picture of the accused.

Criminal Evidences reported that the recorded voice of the caller and that of the accused were identical.

ATA confessed that he entered the country using the passport with the forged residency and that he had been deported and banned as well. He also confessed to running prostitution dens.

The Prosecution accused ARA of forging and using forged document.
 

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