A court in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, has sentenced a Bangladeshi national to three years of imprisonment for travelling on a forged Indian passport and illegally registering land in West Bengal. Special Judge, Ballia, Ramkripal yesterday held Abdul Amin guilty, and also imposed a fine of 10 thousand rupees on him. According to prosecution sources, a case was registered in 2023, in Ballia against Amin, who hails from a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh, on a written complaint by Inspector Bharat Bhushan Tiwari of the ATS Varanasi unit.
The case was registered in 2023 under various sections of the IPC and under the Foreigners Act. It is alleged that Amin, with the assistance of individuals from Ballia, illegally obtained Indian documents. Based on the documents he illegally registered land in Purushottampur located in the Pandua area of West Bengal’s Hooghly district. He also got a passport made using fraudulent means, and travelled to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
