Overview
- Police identified the suspects as Mohammad Maqbool Alam and Rehan Ansari, accused of using forged Aadhaar and voter IDs to obtain Indian passports while living in Bhopal.
- An FIR was registered after an intelligence alert, with charges including fraud and violations of the Indian Passport Act.
- The Regional Passport Office notified police on November 14, 2023 that the two were Bangladeshi nationals who had secured passports fraudulently.
- Investigators say the men are untraceable, the Kolar Road address listed in their documents is not occupied, and the phone numbers on their passports are switched off.
- Officials are examining possible lapses in document and police verification in a city where agencies have flagged similar forged-identity cases in recent years.