The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad claims to have busted a massive fake documents racket involving illegal Bangaldeshi immigrants as well as Indian nationals. The officers said 466 passports were made using fraudulent documents. Sources said officers of police stations where the verifications for the passports happened are also being investigated.

The ATS has arrested eight accused, including four Bangladeshi nationals. The racket was busted after they received a tip-off about one Bangladeshi immigrant, Akram Khan, in the city who was allegedly involved in making and supplying fake Indian identity cards to other Bangladeshi immigrants. The officers nabbed him from Sewri after which he identified himself as Akram Noor Nabi Ollauddin Shaikh, 28, from Novokhali, Bangladesh. He told officers he had travelled to India without any valid documents.