new delhi arrest of paramjeet kaur and amarjeet who were trying to emigrate posing as bjp mp babubhai kataras wife and son respectively was just one in a series of similar incidents in which over 4000 people were apprehended at various international airports while trying to travel on the basis of fakeforged documents during the past three yearsaccording to figures compiled by the home ministry 4172 indians were apprehended while attempting to travel abroad on forgedfake travel documents at major international airports including delhi mumbai and kolkata during 200406incidentally in each of the case the people were trying to emigrate with the intention to disappear abroad besides subsequent probes also revealed that all had tried their luck with the help of one or the other agent who used to work with the help of their network in foreign countriesarrest of as many as 404 agents in the past three years is a testimony of what the probe revealed the yearwise breakup of the official figure disclosed in rajya sabha last month shows that while 1492 such travellers were apprehended in 2006 during januarydecember 1608 were caught in 2005 and 1072 in 2004incidents have also come to light where people having valid documents were caught trying to accompany those with fake travel papers however the involvement of a sitting parliamentarian in such a racket is the first one a case which may now prompt immigration officials to check the passport entries of highprofile people quite minutelystories of indians including sportspersons and artists missing abroad after reaching there on valid visas are not new but this only tells a tale of one side of the human trafficking route the other being one in which people succeed in reaching their destination on the basis of fake travel documentsvishwamohantimesgroupcom