Mar 23 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai)
Police bust fake passport racket, arrest 3 Bangladeshis
Ahmed Ali
Mumbai:


The city crime branch has unearthed a fake passport racket involving Bangladeshi nationals. The gang leader, it is learnt, had made passports using bogus documents for several Bangladeshis. Questions are being raised as to how the accused managed to procure passports from the Mumbai office despite a strict verification process.
Acting on a tip-off, the crime branch unit 9, led by inspector Mahesh Desai, nabbed Nazrul Shaikh from near Bandra station where he was to meet his associate. The police found fake school leaving certificates, passports and a PAN card on him. “He appeared Bangladeshi, but had a Indian passport and we had specific information that Nazrul was involved in a passport racket. Hence, we sent his passport for verification,“ said a police officer. As Nazrul had submitted a leaving certificate of Anjuman Tabligul Islam High School, a police team visited the Kurla school and learnt that the certificate was a fake.

The police then carried a search of Nazrul's house and found passports of two of his associates--Mohammed Ahsanullah and Mohammed Naseem Ansari--which were also allegedly made using fake documents. Ahsanullah and Ansari were also arrested.