Based on information received from Pimpri Chinchwad police on Saturday, the Regional Passport Office in Pune, on July 2, revoked as many as 42 Indian passports that were allegedly procured by Bangladeshis by submitting forged documents.
Deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Shivaji Pawar said details of 42 passports were revealed during a probe into the five Bangladeshis arrested from Nigdi area this year in January.
Police identified the five accused as Rocky Barua alias Debit Roy (31), Amiron Barua (28), Ankur Barua (28), Ratul Barua (28) and Rana Barua (25), all natives of Chittagong in Bangladesh.
Police said they came to India illegally and were found to be living in Sainath Nagar, Nigdi. They had plans to go abroad for work using Indian passports. A probe by assistant police inspector AS Deshmukh, the investigating officer, had revealed that three of the Indian passports seized from the accused were issued from Goa.
Suyog Arun Lande (31) of the anti-terrorist cell of Pimpri Chinchwad police had lodged the FIR in this case at Nigdi police station under sections of Foreigners Act and the Passport Act.
A probe revealed that Rocky alias Debit Roy along with Jiku Das alias Joy Chowdhary, who too is a Bangladeshi, but was living illegally in Pune and Goa, and a local agent Sainath Yeilwad of Chandan Nagar in Pune helped several Bangladeshi nationals in procuring Indian passports.
While Jiku and Sainath are still on the run, police investigation and interrogation of Debit Roy revealed details of several Indian passports procured by Bangladeshis after they infiltrated into India via the international border at West Bengal without essential permissions.
Police said illegal Bangladeshi migrants initially procured Aadhaar Cards, Pan cards and further used them to get Indian passports with the help of agents in Pune and Goa.
DCP Sandeep Doifode of special branch of Pimpri Chinchwad police informed the passport office about the 42 Indian passports obtained by Bangladeshis after illegally crossing over to India. Thereupon all 42 passports were revoked on July 2, as per a press release issued today by DCP Shivaji Pawar.
Police said that absconding accused Sainath was also booked in a similar case lodged at Borivali police station in Mumbai.
A Borivali police team had arrested 20 Bangladeshi migrants and two Indians in connection with the racket of making passports, aadhaar cards, pan cards and other documents for the infiltrators. All 20 Bangladeshi infiltrators were held guilty and convicted by a court in Mumbai in May this year.
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