mumbai after making dozens of overseas trips from mumbai to mauritius where he worked as a domestic help between 2012 and 2022 a 50yearold citizen of nepal was finally arrested at the city airport for using a fake indian passport for more than 25 years sahar police arrested maniratna bhandari originally from lumbini in nepal for trying to fly to mauritius from mumbai on monday with an overseas citizen of india oci card which he had got in 2007 after completing 10 years in mauritius police also reportedly learned that bhandari even held a citizenship of mauritiusbhandari had made multiple trips to mauritius since november 1997 and travelled to his native village in nepal during the pandemic in 2019 without being caught once the lockdown was lifted he managed to clear the immigration check in mumbai and travelled back to mauritius now his passport and oci have been seized and action will be initiated based on the courts instructions details have been shared with the regional passport office in mumbai and with the nepal embassy said a sahar police officerbhandari was caught when police constable sachin tandel 50 attached to the special branch deployed at the immigration check at the airport got suspicious about his nationality when he produced the indian passport for further inquiry tandel took bhandari to wing incharge rajkumar verma duty officer abhishek gaud and passenger profile officer ramavatar mina and found that he was a citizen of nepal and held its id card and driving licence he was then handed over to the sahar policebhandari told the police that he got the indian passport in 1997 bhandari came to mumbai in 1994 and worked in a hotel at mahim where he befriended a customer who offered him a job as a domestic help at his mauritius home he paid rs 3000 to the hotel customer in november 1997 who helped him get an indian passport with forged documents in 2007 he got an oci which he frequently used to travel from mauritius to mumbai and back to mauritius in 2012 2013 2017 and 2022 he also flew from mauritius to delhi in 2018 and mauritius to kolkata and back in 2019 without facing any hurdles said the policebhandari has been booked under the indian penal code sections for cheating and forgery and under the passport act and foreigners act