ahmedabad a city sessions court on tuesday denied bail to two accused in the canadia visa scam involving present and former employees of vfs global private ltd the accused have been charged of forging documents and fraudulently enrolling biometrics of 28 canada visa aspirantsmehul bharwad former vfs global employee and a visa agent and coaccused harish pandya were denied release after public prosecutor sudhir brahmbhatt vehemently opposed their pleas the two pleaded their innocence to the court and questioned the method of their arrest they also sought parity with other company employees accused in the case who have been released on bailthe scam came to light when the canadian high commission on july 5 sent an email to vfs global stating that although biometric enrolments for 28 visa applicants were registered with vfs globals ahmedabad office the immigration refugees and citizenship canada ircc office had never issued their visa appointment letters this information was revealed in the fir registered by the companys managerthe procedure requires a canada visa aspirant to first log into the ircc website and create a profile by providing the required information later the persons biometrics are collected at the vfs office these details are uploaded on the vfs website following which the applicant downloads his details and sends it to ircc the ircc then issues the applicant a visa appointment letterthe fir registered with the crime branch said that bharwad and two company employees sohil diwan and melvyn christi along with a few travel agents bypassed the proper procedure to register an applicant on the system and fraudulently enrolled biometrics of 28 applicants and provided them forged visa appointment letters