Used to make fake passport in 2 months by taking bribe, now CBI arrested 4 officers
CBI has arrested four officers from West Bengal in the fake passport scam case.
Four employees of the Regional Passport Office (RPO) in Kolkata, including three senior passport assistants and a stenographer, have been arrested concerning the fake passport racket in West Bengal and Sikkim, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) informed. The four men arrested from the Kolkata RPO were produced before a Gangtok court on October 21, agency insiders told media persons. At present, he is in CBI custody till 25th October. He also said that a total of 24 people have been named in the FIR lodged by the agency, including these four, identified as senior passport assistants Uttam Kumar Bhairon, Nisith Baran Saha, and Debashish Bhattacharya and stenographer Manish Kumar Gupta. Has been done in. In this case, two passport officers and four agents involved in the fake passport racket were earlier arrested by the CBI.
CBI suspects that the network of this racket will not be limited only to the Passport Department, but may also spread to other departments of the Central and State Governments. The agency has found clues and exposed links to an international women trafficking racket behind this scam. The central agency has certain clues about this link after the arrest of Varun Singh Rathod from Naxalbari in the Darjeeling district a few days ago. The CBI's suspicions deepened because most of the fake passports recovered from Rathore were of women from North Bengal and nearby Sikkim.