‘Forged passports make identification messier’ was the headline in Pioneer-May 25, 2010. At least ten victims had travelled by the Air India Express flight from Dubai to Manglore on forged passports, it read. The article was dedicated to the mess occurring due to failure in identifying the real victims, as they carried forged passport. A statement from local agent said that in and around Mangalore, forging passport for travel was a normal thing, but the magnitude did baffle him, 10 out of 160. From South India, Kerala in particular, traveling to Gulf on forged passport was rampant, is what could be perceived, from that piece of news.
Now, the issue is, are we just restricting the news to messier situation developed in distribution of compensation. If I recall well, very recently, hardly a month back, there was news mentioning Kerala as hotbed, breeding ground, for terrorists. There had been major link between big terrorist activities and Kerala. Gulf countries being main conduit for money swindling, movement of terrorist heads and other illegal activities is a well known fact. I don’t believe that intelligence units of the state and country had failed to comprehend the situation in the past. What I feel is that if the issue is highlighted, brought into the notice of common man, it will ring a bell of caution, and the perpetrators will be defensive and mass alert. I haven’t heard any news recently of any crackdown on the passport issue. That means nothing concrete has been done, as such. Let the community be educated, alerted, called to contribute in checking the menace, which has far-reaching ramifications, than what is visible in print.
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