Dozens of Indian medical students who have been stranded in China after buying fake air tickets are being flown home, officials from Air India say. 
The airline flew 12 of the students back to India on Monday.
Many students returning to India on holiday were left stranded in Beijing and other parts of China after they learnt their tickets were bogus.
Indian papers reported on Monday that the students were allegedly duped by a Bangladeshi travel agent.
The papers said that one of the students had filed a complaint with the Beijing police.
According to a press release by Air India the airline would bring all the students back to India in the next two to three days.
“We have been approached by at least 30 students so far who are being brought back to India on regular flights from Beijing,” said Prasad Rao, spokesman from Air India.
On Sunday Emirates Airways and Malaysian Airlines were reported not to have accepted the students’ e-tickets on the grounds that they were fake. They were prevented from boarding their flights.
Air India says more than 15 students are flying back on Tuesday and a batch of 20 will be put on a flight to India on Wednesday.
Mr Rao said they were giving priority to the stranded students but he said they were helping only those who were coming forward for help.
He clarified that the travel was not free and students were paying $631 (27,000 rupees) each, which is 15% less than the fares charged by other airlines.
Hundreds of Indian students travel to China and Russia to study medicine rather than sit stringent entrance tests in India.
Most of the students were studying in specialized ultrasound school. Being highly demanding carrier, ultrasound school are very much in demand all over the world.
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