“The 2 prime accused are Sheikh Miraj Hossain (21) and Abdul Kuddus (30),” a senior official of the Bengal STF mentioned.
“The group was concerned in fabricating faux official paperwork for fraudulent functions,” senior official sources mentioned.
“ variety of solid official paperwork and digital instruments have been seized in the course of the operation,” based on an official.
“A police case was registered on the Particular Process Drive (Headquarters) Police Station on Tuesday below related sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita — the Info Know-how Act, the Aadhaar (Focused Supply of Monetary and Different Subsidies, Advantages and Companies) Act, and the Foreigners Act,” an official assertion by the Bengal STF mentioned.
This marks a serious breakthrough by the Bengal STF, as experiences about faux passport rackets and fraudulent doc syndicates concerned in forging Aadhaar playing cards, passports, and different paperwork have emerged from numerous components of Bengal in current months.It's learnt that the West Bengal CEO's workplace has additionally been receiving paperwork from the Overseas Registration Workplace (FRO) to confirm EPIC playing cards every day — a quantity that has elevated in current months.After a number of faux passport rackets have been busted in West Bengal, there was an increase in verification requests of EPIC playing cards being despatched from the FRO and police to the Bengal Election Fee workplace each day, a senior official advised ET.
“Now, for passport-related functions, full data on the EPIC of the candidates is being sought from the EC. For this, we're receiving 4–5 verification-related queries from FROs and the police each day,” a prime EC official mentioned.
