Details have been shared with the regional passport office in Mumbai and with the Nepal embassy,” said a Sahar police officer. Now, his passport and OCI have been seized and action will be initiated based on the court’s instructions. “Once the lockdown was lifted, he managed to clear the immigration check in Mumbai and travelled back to Mauritius. While taking a photo ourselves, we risk making a mistake that may cause rejection of our application. Bhandari had made multiple trips to Mauritius since November 1997 and travelled to his native village in Nepal during the pandemic in 2019 without being caught. The most commonly made mistakes in visa/passport photos. Police also reportedly learned that Bhandari even held a citizenship of Mauritius. Sahar police arrested Maniratna Bhandari, originally from Lumbini in Nepal, for trying to fly to Mauritius from Mumbai on Monday with an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card which he had got in 2007 after completing 10 years in Mauritius. MUMBAI: After making dozens of overseas trips from Mumbai to Mauritius where he worked as a domestic help between 20, a 50-year-old citizen of Nepal was finally arrested at the city airport for using a fake Indian passport for more than 25 years.
