Indian Court sentences two Maldivians to nine-month imprisonment for forgery

Two Maldivians living in Mysore, India have been sentenced to nine months in prison and fined Rs8,000 for forgery.

India’s Deccan Herald paper reported that the two people sent behind bars are Ibrahim Ahmed and Hussain Sar of Maldives. They were staying in Mysore for the purpose of education, and were arrested last year.

“On October 10, 2011, the duo had applied for no objection certificate from the office of police commissioner at Tiruvananthapuram in Kerala. The two in their letter of request had attached a duplicate of extended NoC of the office of N?R?police inspector here, besides a rubber stamp.

“The illegality had come to light when the police commissioner of Kerala sought his counterpart in Mysore to ascertain the veracity of the NoC, said a release from assistant public prosecutor R?Badrinath,” reads the article on Deccan Herald.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs has earlier informed that two Maldivians had been arrested in India for forgery.