A 21-year-old girl, who was arrested at the Sahar Airport on August 31 for allegedly forging her visa to visit Pakistan to speak on Christianity, applied for bail in the sessions court on Monday, claiming that she was falsely implicated.
In August, Daniella Rosano, a tutor by profession, had visited Pakistan on a fake visa. To avoid the needle of suspicion when entering Pakistan, she travelled via Nairobi. However, when she landed at the Karachi Airport, thge Pakistan immigration spotted some discrepancies in her documents.
To further confirm their suspicion, one of the officers then subjected her visa to ultraviolet rays, and found that her documents were forged. As the accused had travelled from the Nairobi airport, her verification had to be conducted by the Nairobi High Commission as well.
After verifying the fraud, she was deported back to India, wherein she was arrested on her arrival at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
It was later revealed that she was on a mission assigned by a church clergyman called Thomas, who visited her at her church in Mazgaon. Thomas, who was a Protestant, told her that there were certain new churches in Pakistan and to spread the religion worldwide, she must go and preach the faith.
In the bail application, Rosano alleges that the prime accused in the case should be Thomas. She has also pled that Thomas had promised to take care of her family. As she was the lone earning member of her family, she decided to take up the mission to Pakistan.
She further claimed that it was Thomas who had arranged for all her documents to enter the foreign country and she had no idea about the fraud that was being perpetrated.