NEW DELHI - Indian police are investigating the human trafficking link of a young Indian man who is facing criminal charges after being caught impersonating a 68-year-old senior citizen in order to board a flight to Canada.

Airport police arrested Guru Sewak Singh,. 24, at the Indira Gandhi International Airport when he presented himself as Rashvindar Singh Sahota He carried the senior citizen’s passport when nabbed by the police last month.

Singh was detained by the Central Industrial Security Force for forging official travel documents and has been charged for the crime.

He was accompanied by his wife when he approach the immmigration counter with the bogus travel documents. He showed up, claiming to be a senior citizen.

Singh misrepresented himself as Sahota and wore an elaborate disguise to convince immigration authorities that he was a senior citizen. The passport he presented identified Sahota as having been born on February 2, 1957 in Punjab’s Jalandhar.

He was supposed to board Air Canada flight AC 043 bound for that country.

However, alert immigration personnel noted that there were glaring discrepancies in Sewak’s physical appearance, especially the youthful texture of his skin.

When examined closely, Guru’s hair and beard were found to have been dyed.

Prompted by their suspicions, immigration authorities conducted a search of the suspect’s belongings and discovered another passport, this time, truly belonging to him.

It was then that Guru Sewak admitted his real age and name, admitting further that the Sahota’s passport had been forged.

He also confessed that their final destination was to the United States through the use of ‘donkey route” in Canada.