Navy Officers: Accused Navy officers, their aide introduced carpenter as dentist | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: Ravi Kumar (30) was a carpenter by profession, but in his visa application to South Korea, the arrested Navy officers introduced him as a dentist from Nashik. When police visited his clinic in Nashik, they found that there was no doctor by that name and the clinic was run by another woman dentist who has nothing to do with the case. According to the police, this is just the tip of the iceberg in the human trafficking case involving two senior Navy officers.

Last week, the Crime Intelligence Unit arrested Indian Navy Lieutenant Vipin Dagra for allegedly aiding and abetting human trafficking by sending people to South Korea with fake documents in exchange for money. On Sunday, the police arrested three more people – Dagra's leader, Second Lieutenant Brahma Jyoti Sharma, his friend Simran Deji, Ravi Kumar and Deepak Mehra. On Monday, the city crime branch produced Ravi and Deepak, who were arrested from their village Ranbir Singh Pura in Jammu, before the 37th Metropolitan Magistrate Court. They have been remanded in judicial custody.

During the investigation, the police came to know that Ravi wanted to settle in South Korea. However, when the embassy delayed his visa, Dagra went to the South Korean embassy in navy uniform to expedite Ravi's visa saying that he was his brother. “When the embassy officials told Dagra that the delay was due to the verification process, Dagra sent a threatening mail from the navy's official email address to put pressure on them,” a source said. The accused had allegedly sent at least 10 people, mostly from Jammu, to South Korea with fake documents. Brahma Jyoti's bank account showed that he had accumulated over Rs 1 crore in 8 years. — Ahmed Ali

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