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Kolkata: Employees at Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSKs) in West Bengal’s border districts are being investigated by security and intelligence agencies for allegedly facilitating the issuance of fake Indian documents, including passports, to Bangladeshi infiltrators.
Sources indicate that the state police have launched an investigation based on evidence suggesting that certain contractual workers and permanent staff within the Postal Department are acting as accomplices in these operations, allegedly receiving substantial commissions.
In the past 72 hours, authorities have arrested four individuals linked to the counterfeit passport operations, including two members of the Indian Postal Department’s contractual staff associated with two POPSKs.
The arrested individuals, identified as Taraknath Sen and Deepak Mondal, were apprehended in separate actions—Sen by the Kolkata Police’s Special Task Force (STF) and Mondal by the West Bengal Police’s coastal division.
Investigators have noted several consistent patterns concerning how these rackets function, particularly in providing fake Indian identity documents to Bangladeshi infiltrators. Many of these operations are located in villages near international borders with Bangladesh, both on land and at sea. Recently, Selim Matabbar, a former associate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was detained in a hotel in Park Street, central Kolkata, where police found a fake Indian passport in his possession. Further investigation revealed that Matabbar had crossed the border illegally and obtained false Indian documents from a racket operating in the Nadia district, which borders Bangladesh.
