Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) have been conducting fresh raids and search operations since Thursday morning at Chakdaha in the Nadia district of West Bengal.
Kolkata Police's detective department conducted search operations across North 24-Parganas and held a former police officer in the fake passport scam.
The Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) police apprehended 203 offenders, including travel agents and facilitators of illegal immigration, this year in a bid to crack down on visa and passport fraudsters, it said in a statement on Monday.
West Bengal Police, probing the fake passport racket in the state, claimed to have got specific information about its kingpin Samaresh Biswa's network of Bangladeshi agents.
Some employees of Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSKs) in bordering districts of West Bengal were under the scanner of security and intelligence agencies in connection with arranging fake Indian documents, including passports, for Bangladeshi infiltrators.
As per the data released by IGIA police, total 19 foreign nationals caught included 12 from Bangladesh, three each from Myanmar, Nepal and one from Afghanistan.
India’s economic performance in the April-June quarter, though slightly below expectations, continues to demonstrate the resilience that has positioned it as the world’s fastest-growing major economy. With a GDP growth of 6.7 per cent year-on-year, India outpaced China’s 4.7 per cent growth during the same period.
He stated this in a message as the MEA commemorated the 12th Passport Seva Divas to mark the enactment of the Passports Act on 24 June 1967. Coinciding with this, a three-day Regional Passport Officers (RPO) Conference was organised from 22-24 June in Delhi.
More foreign passport holders, including American citizens, are expected to cross from Gaza into Egypt via the Rafah border crossing point as mediatory talks continue in Qatar.
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