Mumbai: The Sahar police have arrested four persons hailing from
Amritsar, Haryana and Punjab for flying to Istanbul on forged documents. The accused had plans to later travel from there to the US as illegal immigrants. They were deported to Mumbai on Tuesday after immigration authorities in Turkey caught them with fake papers, including forged certificates of a maritime training centre in Navi Mumbai. tnn
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