According to the police, the accused, Abdul Hai, retired as a Sub-Inspector, was attached to the passport section of Kolkata Police and during the investigation, police found his role in the racket, which helped infiltrators with fake passports.

According to police, the racket functioned in the guise of a travel agency and had illegally issued 73 fake Indian passports to infiltrators, particularly Bangladeshi citizens.

Kolkata: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case in which passports were issued to Bangladeshi nationals using Indian documents on Frida.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Hai verified more than 50 passports, which were later found to be fake