11 held for involvement in ‘illegal immigration’ of Bangladesh nationals: police

The Delhi police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a gang involved in the “illegal immigration of Bangladesh nationals” with the arrest of 11 people.  

Four of those arrested are Bangladesh citizens, who were allegedly involved in the making of fake documents, the police said.

According to an officer, the gang was busted when the police was searching for the accused in the murder case of Sentu Sheikh,45, a Sangam Vihar resident.

“While investigating we learnt that Sheikh had withheld ₹50,000 of the two accused — Midul Miyan, alias Akash Ahmed, and Fardeen Ahmed, alias Abhi Ahmed — who used to work under him,” said the officer. 

Akash and Abhi then plotted to kill him along with two other women employees, the officer added. 

The deceased had three businesses running in Sangam Vihar — a meat shop, beauty parlour and a general store, where the four accused used to work, the officer added. 

“While probing the case, we got to know that while Sheikh had come from West Bengal’s Murshidabad over 15 years back, his wife had moved here in 2007. The two women who are co-accused in the murder had moved only a few months back while Akash and Abhi had immigrated illegally from Bangladesh a year ago,” said the officer. 

The accused were found in possession of Bangladeshi ID cards (chip-based NID cards) and birth certificates, the police said. 

Twenty-one Aadhaar cards, four voter ID cards, and eight PAN cards were also recovered from them.

Further questioning of the accused led to the arrest of Sahil Sehgal, 26, who ran a computer centre in Rohini’s Sector 5. It was found that the centre was involved in preparing fake Aadhaar cards and other documents using fake identity proofs.

Sehgal revealed that he was approached by illegal Bangladeshi immigrants through Sentu Seikh, the officer added.

“Sahil used the fake website Jantaprints.site to generate fraudulent birth certificates and sent them to his associate Ranjit for Aadhaar card processing,” the officer said.

Ranjit, a resident of Sector 7 in Rohini, worked with Afroz, 25, an authorised Aadhaar operator at Karnataka Bank in Rohini, Sector 5. Using fake birth certificates, Afroz facilitated the making Aadhaar cards.

Ranjit and Afroz were arrested, and investigations revealed that the Jantaprints.site offered fake documents pertaining to child birth, caste, income and education at nominal prices starting from ₹7, the officer said.

Payments for these documents were made via Paytm QR codes linked to a number registered under Mohammad Chand. Based on technical surveillance, Mohammad Chand, 28, from Uttam Nagar, was arrested from Vikas Nagar, Delhi. He confessed to retaining a 2% commission and transferring the remaining amount to Saddam Hussain.

Saddam Hussain, 33, from Uttam Nagar, was arrested, leading to the discovery that the website was operated by his associate Deepak Mishra. Saddam transferred the payments to Deepak Mishra, retaining a 2% share for himself.