A retired officer with the West Bengal Police was arrested on Friday for his alleged involvement in a faux passport racket that facilitated unlawful Bangladeshi immigrants to enter India, the police stated.
Abdul Hai, 61, former sub-inspector hooked up to the Passport part, was arrested from his residence in North 24 Parganas round 11.45 pm, they stated.
With Hai’s arrest, the police have to this point apprehended 9 folks within the racket, the police stated, and added that Hai could be produced in courtroom on Saturday.
In response to the police, the racket functioned within the guise of a journey company and had illegally issued 73 faux Indian passports to infiltrators, significantly Bangladeshi residents.
Earlier, the Kolkata police nabbed Dhiren Ghosh, 48, from his rented home at Madanpur of Chakdaha in Nadia on Tuesday evening and in addition seized a number of paperwork.
Sources stated Ghosh’s title cropped up whereas interrogating Manoj Gupta, one of many masterminds of the racket who was arrested not too long ago.
The police had additionally apprehended different members of the racket, together with a university scholar and his father Ripan Biswas. The opposite arrested are Samaresh Biswas, Mukhtar Alam, Tarak Nath Sen, and Dipankar Das.
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