A day after the Kolkata Police launched a serious passport fraud investigation, the police on Tuesday evening arrested a person, Dipankar Das from Becharam Chatterjee Avenue within the Parnasree Thana space in reference to the case. He was produced within the Alipore courtroom on Wednesday, which remanded him to police custody until December 26.
The arrest comes amid the continuing investigation, now taken up by the detective division, after it was found that 73 Indian passports had been allegedly issued to Bangladesh nationals utilizing “cast paperwork”.
Police discovered cast earnings tax returns paperwork, seals of two state-owned banks, computer systems, printers throughout raids at Das’s premises . “Authorities recovered photocopies of 36 Indian passports, together with Schengen and UK visas,” stated an official.
As per sources, Das alone allegedly created 3,000 pretend passports.
Whereas the Kolkata Police is actively investigating the racket and its connections to different areas, authorities imagine that 73 people have already traveled overseas utilizing these fraudulent passports.
4 individuals together with Samaresh Biswas and his son, Ripon Biswas, believed to be the primary conspirators together with two non permanent publish workplace staff, Deepak Mondal, and Tarakanath Sen, have already been arrested.
As per the investigation, a classy operation was led by Biswas and his son Ripon, who allegedly created pretend passports. They engaged two publish workplace non permanent staff, Tarakanath Sen and Deepak Mondal, to facilitate the acquisition of pretend passports for Bangladeshi nationals.
The probe additional reveals that Das was assigned to manufacture varied paperwork for acquiring pretend passports, like earnings tax returns and different tax-related paperwork.
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