Thai woman with 3 passportsheld at airport for visa fraud | Lucknow News
Lucknow: On Thursday morning, a dramatic scene unfolded at Lucknow’s Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport when immigration officials intercepted Thongphun Chayapha, a Thai national traveling under the alias Darin Chokthanpat. Her attempt to board Air India Express Flight to Thailand unravelled a complex web of visa violations and document forgery, leading to an FIR against her and three Indian facilitators—Jaswinder Singh, Navendu Mittal, and Shuvendu Nigam—under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023 and the Foreigners Act, 1946 at Sarojninagar police station. Thongphun, holder of a fraudulent passport, had previously entered India on July 29, 2024, using another passport under her real name. Blacklisted for earlier visa violations, she exited India on March 17, 2025, via an exit permit but audaciously re-entered on July 31, 2025, through the Raxaul Immigration check post with a new fake identity. Jaswinder Singh, her primary facilitator, allegedly orchestrated the creation of forged passports with fabricated parentage, enabling her illegal stay at his residence located just 2 km south of airport in Sarojninagar police limits. The plot thickened when it emerged that Jaswinder, with assistance from Navendu Mittal and Shuvendu Nigam, procured multiple fake Thai passports to aid Thongphun’s illicit movements. Acting on intelligence shared on August 13, with the DCP (Intelligence), Lucknow, ADG (Intelligence) UP, DCP (South) Lucknow and Sarojini Nagar police, cops detained Thongphun and Jaswinder on August 20. Shockingly, the Sarojninagar police initially allowed her to leave without registering an FIR, only for her to be caught again at the airport the next day, read the FIR lodged by the Assistant FFRO (Foreigners Regional Registration Office).The FIR cites violations under BNS sections 336(3) (forgery), 336(4) (forgery for cheating), 340(2) (using forged documents), 318(4) (cheating), 61(2) (criminal conspiracy), and Foreigners Act sections 14(b) and 14(c) (visa overstays and violations). Three Thai passports, two Thai IDs, a boarding pass, and two mobile phones including an iPhone X were recovered from her. Thongphun was handed over to Sarojninagar Police on Thursday afternoon.
