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Meghalaya, Mumbai Police bust illegal migrant & forgery racket

Shillong, Apr 20 (UNI) Meghalaya and Mumbai police has busted a well-oiled network of illegal migration, document forgery and financial crime by Bangladeshi nationals operating across India.
The operation began on February 14 this year when Meghalaya police received credible inputs about a group of suspected Bangladeshi nationals travelling from Assam’s main city of Guwahati to Meghalaya’s capital Shillong.
Five suspected Bangladeshi nationals, including four adults and a child — were intercepted and detained at a police checkpoint in Nongpoh under Ri-Bhoi district.
“Initially, they (detained Bangladeshi nationals) presented Aadhaar and PAN cards, rigorous interrogation revealed the group’s true identities as Bangladeshi nationals who had illegally entered India two months prior with the help of an elaborate smuggling network,” Vivekanand Singh Rathore, the district police chief of Ri-Bhoi, said on Sunday.
“They had travelled as far as Mumbai seeking work and were now en route back to Bangladesh,” the police official said.
During the interrogation, the accused confessed to obtaining Indian identity documents — including Aadhaar and PAN cards — through Shaikh Mohd Mujib, based in Mumbai’s Sewri area, Rathore said.
Mujib is alleged to be a key facilitator, arranging forged documents using fake address proofs and enlisting middlemen to move illegal immigrants through border towns to metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and beyond.
Rathore said further investigation unearthed a criminal racket in Mumbai involving Nusrat A Kazi and Jabir Yunus Shaikh, who exploited the fake identities to open bank accounts in the immigrants’ names.
“These accounts were then allegedly used for loan frauds and cybercrimes, including being sold to cybercriminals for financial scams,” he said.
Rathore said this network and some others could have assisted thousands of such illegal immigrants to procure fake Indian documents and are being misused for various financial and other crimes.
“There is a need for heightened vigilance from intelligence agencies and law enforcement across states as this isn’t an isolated case,” he said, adding that this “well-oiled network of illegal migration, document forgery and financial crime pose serious implications for national security.”
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