Human trafficking racket busted by Maha ATS 3 Bangladeshis 1 Mumbaikar held
Mumbai Feb 28 PTI Four people have been arrested in connection with a human trafficking racket in which Bangladeshi nationals were being brought into India illegally a Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad official said on Monday The modus operandi was to get nationals from the neighbouring country into India though the open border or by cutting barbed wire fencing after which they would obtain Aadhaar Cards from a UIDAI centre in Bangaon in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal the official said These people would then spread out into various cities of India obtain more documents fraudulently and finally manage to get Indian passports made in their names We have arrested three Bangladeshi nationals including a 17-year-old girl Of these accused Kajal Sheikh has already managed to get herself an Indian passport he said Mumbai resident Santosh Varne 52 who claims to be a passport agent for the past eight to ten years has been arrested for supplying these people with forged civic documents school certificates etc the official said We have seized a booklet having 100 blank School Leaving Certificates on which the name and seal of schools used to be stamped by the accused These blank school leaving certificates are in old format when Mumbai was called Bombay and this has been done to make verification difficult he added He said one Sardar Shaikh alias Monjil Mondal a resident of Sindhrani under Bagdah police station limits in Bangaon in WBs North 24 Parganas was the kingpin of the racket He is a history-sheeter with four cases against his name including for offences like cutting border fencing and human trafficking the official said adding that efforts were on to nab him PTI ZA BNM BNM BNM
Mumbai Feb 28 PTI Four people have been arrested in connection with a human trafficking racket in which Bangladeshi nationals were being brought into India illegally a Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad official said on Monday The modus operandi was to get nationals from the neighbouring country into India though the open border or by cutting barbed wire fencing after which they would obtain Aadhaar Cards from a UIDAI centre in Bangaon in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal the official said These people would then spread out into various cities of India obtain more documents fraudulently and finally manage to get Indian passports made in their names We have arrested three Bangladeshi nationals including a 17-year-old girl Of these accused Kajal Sheikh has already managed to get herself an Indian passport he said Mumbai resident Santosh Varne 52 who claims to be a passport agent for the past eight to ten years has been arrested for supplying these people with forged civic documents school certificates etc the official said We have seized a booklet having 100 blank School Leaving Certificates on which the name and seal of schools used to be stamped by the accused These blank school leaving certificates are in old format when Mumbai was called Bombay and this has been done to make verification difficult he added He said one Sardar Shaikh alias Monjil Mondal a resident of Sindhrani under Bagdah police station limits in Bangaon in WBs North 24 Parganas was the kingpin of the racket He is a history-sheeter with four cases against his name including for offences like cutting border fencing and human trafficking the official said adding that efforts were on to nab him PTI ZA BNM BNM BNM
