MOHALI: Two travel agents allegedly forged e-tickets of a flight to Hyderabad and reached the boarding area before they were caught in a security breach at the Chandigarh international airport on Monday.Rajan Juneja and Satpal Juneja, both residents of Ludhiana, carried out the trick to show off to a group of tourists.According to police, Rajan and Satpal were accompanying a group of 30 tourists booked by them for a tour to Tirupati. They were supposed to board IndiGo flight (6E-274) to Hyderabad.Police claimed the two confessed that they had boasted about their “connections with high security officers” at the airport to the group. To defend their claims, one of the travel agents forged the e-ticket of a passenger in his name, while the other re-used an old e-ticket in his name. Both managed to reach the high-security boarding pass and baggage area after passing through main entry gate and visitors’ lounge.Deputy superintendent of police (DSP) H S Bal said once they managed to see off the group at the baggage area, they were returning, when they were checked by men from Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). “This is the area from where no passenger returns — as they go to board the aircraft. When they were questioned by CISF inspector S K Shaw and their e-tickets checked, it was found they were carrying forged e-tickets. They were detained and Mohali airport police informed. Later, we formally arrested them,” Bal said.The two were booked under Sections 420 (cheating), 465 (forgery), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged electronic record) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC. A local court remanded them in two-day police custody.Police are, however, a bit circumspect about their story. Bal said they sought their remand to ascertain that if they were used by some criminal or terrorist agency to carry out a crime. “We would also find out the methodology adopted to forge the e-tickets. We will keep seeking their remand till we are sure their motive was not to carry out any sabotage,” he said.

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