Overview

• Immigration officials detained the suspect at Kolkata International Airport after he presented an Indian passport under the alias Soumik Barua and officers found his expired Bangladeshi passport during a security check.
• Investigators say he entered India with a Bangladeshi passport as Bibhas Roy and remained after his visa expired before applying for a fraudulent Indian passport.
• He was attempting to travel to Dubai for a connecting flight to Germany when immigration officers identified discrepancies in his travel documents.
• The case is linked to a multi-agency crackdown by state police and the Enforcement Directorate on a network accused of securing Indian identity documents for hundreds of Bangladeshi migrants.
• Officials are scrutinizing more than 20,000 pages of documents and suspicious communications recovered from alleged kingpin Azad Mullick’s devices for potential foreign espionage ties.