Bengal passport scam: Accused made copies of documents & replaced photographs, say police

While photocopying government-issued individuality documents of locals, helium would often marque an other copy. Thereafter, helium would morph the representation connected the papers by replacing it with the photograph of a Bangladeshi national.

The fake papers would past beryllium utilized to get an Indian passport.

Sources further said that Samir Das besides acted arsenic a broker and provided rented accommodations to Bangladeshis by utilizing fake documents.
It has been learnt that Samir Das gained rather a sanction successful Bangladesh for being capable to supply fake documents promptly.

He allegedly charged Rs 15,000 for an Aadhaar card, Rs 10,000 for a elector card, Rs 12,000 for a commencement certificate, and Rs 3,000 for a PAN card.

According to constabulary sources, astatine slightest 2 others arrested successful the case, Kaushik Mondol and Chandan Chakraborty, person alleged that Samir Das lured them into the racket by offering them ample sums of money.

Chakraborty reportedly utilized to bring clients to Das and Mondol, who operated an Aadhaar centre successful Barasat, and helped successful getting ID impervious for Bangladeshi infiltrators.

When contacted, locals successful Barasat’s Nabapally said Samir Das had owned the market store for years and they ne'er suspected helium would beryllium progressive successful specified a racket. They, however, added that determination was seemingly an unprecedented summation successful Das’s income from 2020, arsenic helium turned his one-storied location into a four-storied one.

According to constabulary sources, Samir Das allegedly received orders from his contacts crossed the borderline to hole fake documents required to get an Indian passport. The roles of his 2 sons are besides nether scrutiny, they added.

Earlier, 9 radical were arrested by the Kolkata Police successful transportation to the amerciable passport racket.

The accused see retired constabulary inspector Abdul Hai, Dhiren Ghosh, Manoj Gupta, assemblage pupil Ripan Biswas and his begetter Samaresh Biswas, Mukhtar Alam, Tarak Nath Sen, Dipankar Das, and 1 different person.