Fake passport: Man who offered 12L ‘package’ held

Fake passport: Man who offered 12L ‘package’ held

Fake passport: Man who offered 12L 'package' held

Kolkata: Officers probing the fake passport case on Wednesday arrested a sixth suspect, who reportedly offered “package deals” to Bangladeshis, charging them anything between Rs 3 lakh and Rs 12 lakh to procure forged Indian documentswhich were subsequently used to make passports.
The Kolkata Police special investigation team (SIT) and the detective department arrested Moktar Alam from his home at Chhoto Jagulia in the Duttapukur police station area in North 24 Parganas. Alam was earlier arrested in 2021 case by Chinsurah cops in a similar case. “ATM cards and PAN cards of different people have been seized from him. Further raids are on,” said Rupesh Kumar, joint CP (crime and traffic). Police said Alam was involved with several agents who connected with Bangladeshi infiltrators and introduced them to gang leader Samaresh Biswas and his son, Ripon, both now arrested. After Alam introduced Bangladeshi infiltrators to Samaresh, another accused, Dipankar Das, created forged documents on Samaresh’s instructions. Das has also already been arrested.
While Samaresh and Alam are members of the same ring, police claimed Alam ran the fraudulent business in parallel according to his own methods. Samaresh and his gang created more than 3,000 fake passports using forged documents in Kolkata alone, police had found, and that 73 people had already traveled abroad with such fake passports.
Police have also summoned a person from Samaresh’s “close circle”, believed to be a temporary worker at a post office in Howrah, to Lalbazar for questioning. An officer said the temporary post office employee would directly hand over the passports arriving at the Amta post office to Samaresh and his agents. Police are investigating how the gang and the recipients dodged police verification.

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