Bangladeshi nationals are using India as transit point to enter Afghanistan has left Indian Intelligence agencies' alarmed
NEW DELHI: Bangladeshi nationals are using India as transit point to enter Afghanistan has left Indian Intelligence agencies' alarmed. Intelligence agencies have made a series of detentions of a large number of Bangladeshi nationals at IGI airports.
In the last three days, Indian intelligence agencies detained 100 Bangladeshi nationals travelling on forged visas and passports at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport before boarding flights to Afghanistan.
The immigration department had received a specific alert from intelligence agencies to keep a tab on the movement of the foreign nationals going to Afghanistan.
In the first instance on Wednesday morning, immigration officials at IGI trapped 60 Bangladeshi nationals who were about to board the Afghanistan-bound Kam Air flight at 10am. Immigration officials found that all of them had a fake Afghan visa on their passports. Later, on Sunday, immigration officials arrested 40 Bangladeshis, who were to catch a Kabul-bound flight. And after mandatory questioning and verification from the Bangladeshi high commission, they were deported.
“The Bangladeshis were travelling on fake Indian and Afghan visas. Their passports looked suspicious because its security features did not match the genuine passport,” revealed a senior immigration official on condition of anonymity.
In both instances, immigration officials were shocked when they found out that the Afghanistan high commission, New Delhi, had not issued visas to Bangladeshis in last two months. A Bangladeshi high commission official, in Delhi, also said that “none of the passports or the visa were genuine and they were heading to Afghanistan illegally.”
The detained Bangladeshis, on questioning, told the intelligence agencies about a large cartel operating in Bangladesh and India. “While they were given a fake passport and Indian visa in Bangladesh, it was in Delhi that the fake Afghan visa sticker was put on their passport,” said the official.
Meanwhile, immigration officials have been instructed to be on extra vigil.
k_yogesh@dnaindia.net
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