Kolkata, Jan 25: The investigating agencies probing the rackets for arranging fake Indian documents including Indian passports for illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators have identified a new pattern in the scam where often the Indian relatives of infiltrators are shown as the 'parents' of these illegal infiltrators.
Key Points
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Infiltrators exploit Indian relatives to create fake identity documents
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Racket involves step-by-step process of obtaining fraudulent papers
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Fake ration cards serve as initial gateway to multiple identity proofs
The new finding has added a new dimension for investigation agencies to break the chain of such rackets whose step-by-step progression has the ultimate aim of providing illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators with fake Indian passports. This particular identity document involves maximum commission for the racket operators from the beneficiaries.
Intelligence sources said that as soon as illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators cross the international borders and enter the Indian side in West Bengal, the first task for the operators is to arrange for their temporary hideout shelter at a village adjacent to the Indian borders. Thereafter, the racket operators try to find out from the illegal infiltrator concerned whether that infiltrator has an elderly relative who is an Indian citizen residing in West Bengal. If the answer is yes, sources said that the task for the operator becomes easier.
Once an elderly Indian relative is identified, if the relative is a woman, she is projected as a mother, and if a man, as a father of the infiltrator. Sources mentioned one recent case where an illegal Bangladeshi infiltrator obtained his fake Indian identity documents by projecting his father-in-law, who is an Indian citizen residing in the India-Bangladesh bordering areas, particularly in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district. The illegal Bangladeshi infiltrator in this case was identified as Meher Sheikh, who married a woman residing at Raninagar in Murshidabad district, with her parents continuing to reside in Murshidabad as Indian citizens.
Once any elderly citizen relative of such an illegal Bangladeshi infiltrator is identified, those elderly citizens are projected as parents to begin the process of arranging fake Indian identity documents. The process starts with the arrangement of fake ration cards. By virtue of those fake ration cards, other identity documents like AADHAR cards, EPIC cards, and PAN cards are obtained, and the final step is arranging fake Indian passports.
