New Delhi: It’s not just a human trafficking charge that has suspended BJP MP Babubhai Katara in trouble.
There was more embarrassment in store for Katara on Sunday when Delhi police recovered locally-made Viagra and other sex stimulants from the baggage he was carrying to Toronto before being arrested.
"We recovered some sex stimulants from the MP's baggage. He might have kept it for his personal use," a senior police official said on condition of anonymity.
Katara was arrested on Wednesday trying to take one Paramjeet Kaur and a 15-year-old boy Amarjeet Singh to Toronto on his wife and son’s passports.
The police claimed they had recovered at least three passports from Katara's possession and were checking the authenticity of the documents.
The locally made sex stimulants were among the other belongings recovered from his baggage when police conducted a search.
"Though we recovered the pills from the parliamentarian, we are not investigating the matter. Keeping such things is not a crime, everyone has the freedom to use them," said a senior police official on condition of anonymity.
The arrest of the BJP MP from Dahod in Gujarat blew off the lid of what now appears to be a well-planned international human trafficking racket.
Katara was planning to fly out Paramjeet and Amarjeet to Toronto just as he had done on three occasions earlier using the same modus operandi in the past few years.
However, his plans went awry when a woman passenger of the same Toronto-bound plane lost her passport and blamed the airport staff for it.
The Air India staff launched a search immediately to trace the missing passport. When checking the passports of Katara and his "family", they found that the photographs did not match the face of the passengers.
"They informed the immigration officials and an enquiry was begun immediately," a Delhi Police official said.
"During the course of investigation, the suspicions of police were aroused when Kaur uttered her real name when asked instead of giving the name of Katara's wife, Shardaben, as given on the passport she was travelling with," he added.
He revealed that both Katara and Kaur came out with two different tales after being questioned separately by immigration officials.
Initially Katara claimed that he was travelling with his wife, but upon persistent questioning admitted that the woman was not his wife. He revealed that Paramjeet Kaur was travelling on his wife's passport and he had got her photograph affixed on top of his wife's.
The airport authorities cross-checked and found that Katara's wife was still in Gujarat.
The BJP MP was arrested with his clients under charges of impersonation, travelling with forged documents and cheating of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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