Fake passport case: Former police officer arrested
Kolkata Police's detective department conducted search operations across North 24-Parganas and held a former police officer in the fake passport scam.
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.
In Chandigarh, police verification for passports can now be done within a week with the launch of the mPassport Police app on Friday. The app was inaugurated by the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh, Banwarilal Purohit today.
Former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy has filed a reply in the Delhi Court, opposing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's application seeking NOC for issuance of a fresh ordinary passport
Anubrata, however, according to a source close to him claimed that he had no passport and this prompted the CBI, claimed a source.
The PSP-V2.0 is a continuation and enhancement of PSP-V1.0, an e-Governance instrument, which introduced unprecedented transformation in the delivery of passport-related services to citizens.
Denouncing the order making vigilance clearance mandatory for employees before obtaining a passport, the National Conference (NC) described it as “arbitrary and dictatorial”.
