By IANS,
New Delhi : A Palestinian, who arrived in India in 1996 on student visa, has been arrested for fraudulently obtaining an Indian voter identity card from the Election Commission of India, Delhi Police said Friday.
Police swung into action after receiving information from the Foreigners Regional Registration Organisation (FRRO) about a Palestinian citizen, Baseel Y.S. Nasrallah, obtaining an Indian voter identity card from the Election Commission.
“Acting on the input from FRRO, we formed a team and found that Nasrallah was living in a rented house in Kishangarh village (in south Delhi) with his Indian wife,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police H.G.S. Dhaliwal.
Nasrallah was arrested and on further investigation the voter identity card number CPJ 1166354 was found in his possession.
“During interrogation he admitted that he was a Palestinian citizen and fraudulently obtained the Indian voter I-card,” Dhaliwal added.
A case has been registered against him at the Mehrauli police station.
Nasrallah came to India for the first time in 1996 on student visa on a passport issued from Jordan. He got admission in the Deshbandhu College of Delhi University.
He studied in the college till 1999 and was later deported to his country by the FRRO, but he returned after a month with fresh Visa on a passport issued from Palestine and started living with his brother in Vasant Kunj, south Delhi.
He was again deported by the FRRO about eight months after his arrival in India. This time he went to Jordan instead of his country and obtained a visa of Nepal from there and entered India. In 2001 he went to Lucknow and started living with his friends Sameer and Adnan.
He was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force after Hamas-related documents were found from him. He spent 15 months in jail and the case against him is still pending.
After release on bail, he came to Delhi and started living in Munirka. He married Nainglim Ching, who is from Manipur, in 2005 and shifted to a rented house Kishangarh.