Overview

• Eight Rohingya individuals, including four children, were arrested in Hyderabad for illegally obtaining Indian identity documents using forged papers.
• The arrested individuals have been charged with forgery, abetment, cheating, and causing damage to India's integrity, according to Rachakonda police.
• Recovered items include Aadhaar cards, PAN cards, voter IDs, bank passbooks, and other documents fraudulently obtained through false declarations.
• Key suspects Md Arman, Md Rumana Akther, and Md Nayeem illegally entered India in 2011, while another suspect, Shoaib Malik, entered in 2016 and remains at large along with an accomplice named Ayaz.
• Authorities are intensifying efforts to locate the absconding suspects as part of a broader crackdown on identity fraud and document forgery networks in India.