Michael Sookraj, who admitted to trying to obtain a passport by pretending to be his brother, was yesterday sentenced to three months in jail after he told a city court that he was desperate to go back to his motherless child, who resides in Curacao.
An unemployed Sookraj, 48, yesterday admitted to the charge that on June 20th, at the Central Immigration and Passport Office, in Georgetown, he made a false declaration and signed a written declaration claiming to be Lloyd Sookraj, knowing same to be false, for the purpose of procuring a new passport.
The charge was read by Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court Five.
