Special Judge Ramkripal on Monday held Abdul Amin guilty, and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000, Superintendent of Police Ballia, Omvir Singh said.
NEW DELHI: A special court in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia has sentenced a Bangladeshi national to three years of imprisonment for obtaining forged Indian identity documents, securing a fake passport and illegally registering land in West Bengal, a police official said on Tuesday, as per a report by news agency PTI.Special Judge Ramkripal on Monday held Abdul Amin guilty, and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000, Superintendent of Police Ballia, Omvir Singh said.According to prosecution sources, a case was registered on March 14, 2023, at the Kotwali police station in Ballia against Amin, who hails from a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on a written complaint by Inspector Bharat Bhushan Tiwari of the ATS Varanasi unit.The case was registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under the Foreigners Act, according to PTI report.It is alleged that Amin, with the assistance of individuals from Ballia, illegally obtained Indian identity documents through fraudulent means and, based on them, got land registered in his name in the Hooghly district of West Bengal.He also procured an Indian passport using those forged documents and travelled twice each to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.Following an investigation, police filed a chargesheet against Amin in the court. After examining the evidence and hearing arguments from both sides, the court found Amin guilty and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment. Police said further investigation into the alleged network that helped him procure Indian documents had also been carried out earlier.
