The police have registered a case against the Bangladeshi man (Representational)
A Bangladeshi man was arrested by immigration officials for possessing a fake Indian passport and Aadhaar card at Coimbatore airport. The accused had been identified as G Anwar Hussain (27) and he arrived at the Coimbatore airport from Sharjah. He was handed over to the Peelamedu police station.
The police have registered a case against him under the Foreigners Act and the Passport Act. According to the police, he first came to Avinashi in Tiruppur as a tailor in 2018 and worked there till November 2020.
He met some agents and forged a birth certificate, after which he got an Aadhaar card and a fake Indian passport made.
Police sources say that Anwar Hussain was handed over to a central intelligence agency and the accused had been remanded to judicial custody in Chennai Puzlal prison.
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