Man, 2 sons held in probe into fake passport racket
Times of India | 4 November 2025
Chakdaha (Nadia): The ED officials on Monday raided a carpenter's house in Nadia's Porari village in connection with a fake passport racket allegedly involving Bangladeshi nationals and detained three members of his family.
According to sources, the family, headed by Binanda Sarkar, migrated from Bangladesh around 10 years ago. Binanda and his two sons, Biplab, also a carpenter, and Bipul Sarkar, a mason, managed to obtain Indian passports using forged documents.
Following a three-hour raid that started at 6am, the officials detained Biplab, Bipul and Binanda for questioning in connection with the case. Their mobile phones and several documents were reportedly seized for forensic examinations.
Local residents said the family lived in the village "quietly" for nearly a decade and were known for their daily-wage work in the construction sector. "We never suspected anything unusual about them," said a neighbour.
ED officials have so far declined to issue a formal statement. A source said that the operation was part of a wider investigation into cross-border document forgery and illegal citizenship acquisition in the region.
In Oct, the ED sleuths arrested a person, Indubhushan Haldar, from Chakdah for allegedly helping a Pakistani operative obtain passports for illegal Bangladeshi nationals. Binanda's name apparently surfaced during the questioning of Haldar.
Meanwhile, another team from the ED's Kolkata office conducted a raid at the Passport Seva Kendra in the southern part of the city's Ruby area.