Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Mar 08: Jochen Faget, a Portuguese National, has been arrested from Port Blair city the capital town of A & N Islands, for engaging in commercial activities on a tourist visa.
Jochen Faget, a journalist working for German Radio, was preparing a 45 minute duration radio feature on Andaman without having a work visa.
“Johen Faget, accompanied by his wife, had visited a few Islands and also interviewed some prominent persons for his radio programme. The couple had reached Andamans on 25th February 2013. The arrest was made on 4th March and on 5th March 2013 he was produced to court, from where he was sent to Judicial Custody for 14 days,” sources told Andaman Sheekha today.
Together with the reporter of German Radio, Manger of the hotel, in Andaman, ‘The Reef’ has also been arrested for not intimating the immigration department about arrival of Faget and his wife even after three days of their check in.