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Passports found in dustbin

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD Dec. 11. The North Zone Police have seized 14 valid passports which were reportedly found by a rag-picker in a dustbin in Trimurthy Colony this morning. The 12 passports were issued in the names of people hailing from Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Rangareddy districts of Andhra Pradesh, two others were issued in the names of residents of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

According to the Tukaramgate police Inspector, K. Vijayendar Reddy, most of the passports had visa entries of Gulf countries. They were also bunched together and kept in a plastic cover, which was found in the dustbin.

The rag-picker, Venkateshwar Rao, was sorting out the garbage when a passerby Arul Raj, an executive member of the all India Bharatiya Janata Minority Morcha, (BJMM) noticed the passports and enquired as to how a rag-picker was in possession of them. When told that the passports were found in the dustbin, Mr. Arul Raj alerted the police.

Mr. Venkateshwar Rao told the police he found two empty cigarette packets and some more plastic covers in the bag along with the passports. He did not realise that they were valuable documents and wanted to sell them as waste papers.

Police could not immediately hazard a guess as to how the passports were dumped in the dustbin. A distant possibility was that some thief could have lifted the suitcase of a travel agent and the thief could have abandoned the passports in the dustbin. Efforts were being made to contact the passport- holders.

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