05-24-2005, 06:42 AM
<b>Bangladeshis get fake passports in NE</b>
23 May 2005: At least two hundred Bangladeshis have obtained Indian passports from Tripura on the basis of false affidavits and documents, and this was discovered after the Kolkata regional passport office detected a large number of fake applications from the North East.
A Tripura police official said that many Bangladeshi youth were being lured to take Indian passports to travel to Canada and other Western countries since it was almost impossible to do so on a Bangladesh passport.
<b>Following an alert from Kolkata, Tripura police and customs arrested a Bangladeshi, Jahangir Hussain, from the border town of Sonamura, who had procured a passport in the name of Iqbal Hussain, by obtaining a citizenship certificate, and ration and voter identity cards, by bribing officials. </b>
Inquiries revealed that he had been rejected for a Canadian visa in Bangladesh, and coming from an affluent business family, he had rented a property for a year, and had even acquired land, to get past Western immigration officials in Delhi.
23 May 2005: At least two hundred Bangladeshis have obtained Indian passports from Tripura on the basis of false affidavits and documents, and this was discovered after the Kolkata regional passport office detected a large number of fake applications from the North East.
A Tripura police official said that many Bangladeshi youth were being lured to take Indian passports to travel to Canada and other Western countries since it was almost impossible to do so on a Bangladesh passport.
<b>Following an alert from Kolkata, Tripura police and customs arrested a Bangladeshi, Jahangir Hussain, from the border town of Sonamura, who had procured a passport in the name of Iqbal Hussain, by obtaining a citizenship certificate, and ration and voter identity cards, by bribing officials. </b>
Inquiries revealed that he had been rejected for a Canadian visa in Bangladesh, and coming from an affluent business family, he had rented a property for a year, and had even acquired land, to get past Western immigration officials in Delhi.