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(CNN) - It was an impressive costume: the snow-white beard, the oversized glasses, the wheelchair.
But it was when the seemingly fragile and elderly passenger arrived at security at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, the busiest airport in India, which caught the attention of the staff.
Around 10:45 p.m. on September 8, the person expected to take a night flight to New York.
"He pretended to be very old and incapacitated," Shrikant Kishore, a senior official of the Central Industrial Security Force, told CNN.
Dressed in a robe and white pants, with a white turban and black sneakers, the passenger proved reluctant to be requisitioned.
“Our examiner asked the person in the wheelchair to stand up. He said he couldn't stand up. Our examiner asked him if he would stand up with support. He got up reluctantly. ”
Jayesh Patel "impersonated the elderly and disabled," Shrikant Kishore, an agent of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), told CNN.
That was when the agent noticed that while the passenger's beard and hair were white, the roots were black. He was also struggling to avoid the look of the agent.
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When his passport was requested, the individual submitted documentation claiming that it was Amrick Singh, born in Delhi in February 1938, which made him 81 years old.
“I was definitely not 80 years old. His skin was of a younger person, ”Kishore told CNN.
When his passport was requested, the individual submitted documentation claiming that it was Amrick Singh, born in Delhi in February 1938.
After more questions, the man told security personnel that he was, in fact, Jayesh Patel, 32, a resident of the state of Gujarat.
While holding a false passport, security detailed it and handed it over to the immigration authorities.
Jayesh Patel is 32 years old and a resident of the state of Gujarat.
Kishore told CNN that he doesn't know what the current status of the case is or the reason behind the impersonation.
Indira Gandhi International Airport, commonly known as Delhi Airport, is the twelfth busiest airport in the world, with about 70 million passengers traveling through it in 2018.
