3 Bangladeshi men held for forgery, fake passports

CHENNAI: Police on Friday arrested three Bangladeshi nationals from a house in Thoraipakkam for preparing forged documents including Aadhaar cards and passports and for cheating and staying in India without valid papers.
Noor Hossain, 24, and his brother Sahadat Hossain, 21, and Mohammad Alamgeer Hossain, 23, of Chittagong district in Bangaldesh were sent to jail and police are looking for another man. Police said they busted the gang based on a specific tip from CISF personnel at Chennai airport.
Earlier, a CISF officer who had served in West Bengal stopped a flyer named Zia-ul-Haq, 19, who spoke Hindi with a Bangladeshi accent, and interrogated him. Haq, who had an Indian passport and a valid flight ticket to Dubai, told police he bought the passport and Aadhaar card from a gang at Mettukuppam near Thoraipakkam.
Following an alert, a team of the Thoraipakkam police nabbed the three men, narrowly missing a fourth. The three, booked under Section 14 (c) of Foreigners Act, 1946, Section 12 (1) (A) of Indian Passport Act, apart from 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating) and 471 (using forged documents as genuine) of Indian Penal Code, were handed over to the CCB wing dealing with passport fraud.
The arrested men told police that five years ago they crossed the Bangladesh border, travelling on top of empty trucks plying to West Bengal. Then they came down to Tamil Nadu. They stayed at a rented house owned by a man named M Raja Simhan in Thoraipakkam for a monthly rent of Rs 5,000 and worked at a juice shop and a few restaurants. Police are questioning him to find out how they managed to prepare fake Aadhaar cards and passports.
A few weeks ago, Bulgarian nationals Peter Velikov, 47, and Ilianzdravkov Markov, 36, were arrested for cloning credit and debit cards at a hotel in Semmancherry.