Passport racket probe: 1 more held, 2 cops under lens
Times of India | 2 January 2025
Kolkata: A 48-year-old resident of Chakdaha was arrested by the Special Investigation Team probing the fake passport case. So far, eight people have been arrested in the case.
"Acting on the statement of gang mastermind Manoj Gupta, who is in our custody at present, a raid was conducted at Madanpur in Chakdaha and the accused, Dhiren Ghosh, was nabbed. He was picked up from his rented house for his direct involvement in the case. We seized some relevant documents from the house. He was later produced in court and taken into police custody," said Joint CP (crime and traffic) Rupesh Kumar. According to police sources, Ghosh was involved in arranging fake documents and harbouring Bangladeshis in Bengal.
Meanwhile, two Kolkata Police officers involved in the fake passport racket probe have come under scrutiny. It is alleged that when fake documents were submitted for passport applications, the two officers failed to properly verify them. Furthermore, there are accusations that one officer performed tasks on behalf of the other. Investigators have already spoken to one of them. According to Lalbazar sources, this investigation began under orders from the top authorities.
Lalbazar has stated that apart from these two, the role of an influential person from North 24 Parganas is also under scanner. Police claimed that this person had connections with the mastermind of the fake passport racket.
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