Bhubaneswar: Airport police on Saturday arrested a 34-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly obtaining and using three valid Indian passports under different names and dates of birth to travel abroad over several years. Police are trying to ascertain the reason behind the man possessing three passports.IIC, Airfield police station, Rabindra Meher said the accused, Brijesh Kumar of Azamgarh district, was caught at the immigration of Biju Patnaik International Airport during routine checks after arriving from Bangkok.Immigration officials detected discrepancies in his travel documents, leading to the exposure of a major passport fraud racket. “During verification, officials found that Brijesh had secured three passports from the Regional Passport Office in Lucknow using different identities. The passports were issued in the names of Dalbir Yadav, Brijesh Kumar, and Brijesh Prasad, each carrying different dates of birth. Despite the variation in identities, all three passports mentioned the same residential address in Azamgarh,” Meher said.Investigators examining his travel records found that he had travelled to Thailand in 2017 using one passport and again in 2023 using another. He had also undertaken several overseas trips since 2019 using a third passport.During interrogation, Brijesh allegedly confessed that he procured the passports through two agents by submitting forged documents. He also admitted to using the different passports for international travel at various times. Police said only one passport was found in his possession, while the remaining two were reportedly kept elsewhere.Based on a complaint lodged by immigration officer Gyanendra Padhi, police registered a case and launched an investigation. The accused has been produced in court. Police are now trying to trace the two agents involved in facilitating the fake identities and recover the other two passports.