Immigrant Indian couple in UK pleads guilty for 140,000 pound ID fraud

Indian couple Mohammed Wadiwala and his wife, Zenabbibi, who sought asylum in the United Kingdom in 2007 saying that they faced persecution for their Muslim/Hindu mixed marriage, have pleaded guilty to the charge of using false identities to amass wealth to the tune of 134,438 pounds for themselves and their five children, a report said.

The case against them in India dragged on as officials could not track them for years after they left the country. Five and a half years later, they raked in almost 2,000 pounds a month to house and feed themselves through the National Asylum Seeker's Support Service, reported The Daily Express.

They used the name Sheikh to receive hand-outs from the support service.