Intel failure? 'Absconding' woman lands from UK, renews passport and flies back

CASTING a shadow over the functioning of the state's intelligence unit, a woman accused in multiple cheating cases involving a total of ₹4.27 crore—with two non-bailable warrants, a chargesheet filed as 'absconding', and a police lookout circular against her name—allegedly managed to travel from the UK to India to renew her passport and then return.

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The accused—Haseena Beevi aka Haseena Suneer—belongs to Pathanapuram in Kollam district and is the director of the Malayalam film 'Prakashante Metro'.

"Instead of acting on the lookout notice and non-bailable warrants (NBWs), the authorities allowed her to travel despite repeated complaints and alerts from our side," complainant Sunil G R Nair, who resides abroad, told TNIE.

"It appears that individuals with vested interests may have facilitated her escape."

He has accused Haseena of swindling ₹1.17 crore from him. Haseena, holding a two-year UK visa, arrived in Kerala on June 6 this year as the visa condition requires her to leave the UK every six months, he said.

"After learning of the fraud and her disappearance, I filed a complaint with the Kerala police chief on July 4 and a case was registered at the Museum police station on August 3," he said.