nYet again, a 68-year-old man disguised as an octogenarian was caught at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport after he landed from Hong Kong with a forged passport on Friday.

The accused identified as Gurdip Singh, a resident of Moga in Punjab, had used the fake passport and a fake name, Karnail Singh, to get the Permanent Residence ID of Hong Kong.

According to a senior police official, Gurdip Singh arrived at the IGI airport by flight no. SG-32 on Thursday, the immigration officer told police.

"He produced a passport in the name of Karnail Singh. During the clearance process, the officer noticed the date of  birth on the passport was October 20, 1930, but the man looked younger," said Sanjay Bhatia, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), IGI airport.

"After a detailed probe, it was found that his name was real but date of birth was forged. Gurdip Singh's real date of  birth stood as March 16, 1951.

A case was registered against Singh for cheating the Indian Immigration department and travelling on a forged passport,” said the DCP.

"Gurdip Singh departed for Hong Kong on August 2, 2018, on the basis of Hong Kong Permanent Residence Card and the Indian passport issued in the name of Karnail Singh.

He made his first India-Hong Kong trip on his own passport in 1995 and then visited there regularly. But he couldn't succeed in obtaining a permanent ID of Hong Kong," the DCP said.

"In 2006, he contacted an agent who arranged a bogus passport in the name of  Karnail Singh, which had his photograph. Since 2008, he has been visiting Hong Kong on the said passport and also succeeded in obtaining the Permanent ID of Hong Kong," said the DCP.

Earlier, a 32-year-old man impersonating as an octogenarian was nabbed from IGI Airport.

Police said the accused, identified as Jayesh Patel (32), wanted to go to USA for employment but feared that he may not be granted visa following which he planned to leave country by impersonating as 81-year-old Amrik Singh.

Patel, a resident of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, had coloured his hair and sported a white beard that made him look like an 81-year-old Amrik Singh, a resident of Delhi.

The accused had planned his escape well and in order to gel with his assumed identity, he arrived on a wheelchair to board a flight to New York from the IGI Airport on Sunday but his luck ran out and he was nabbed by the CISF during security check.