In a drive against illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the city Crime Branch arrested a couple for allegedly running an elaborate racket of forging Indian identity documents for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. The arrested accused were identified as Purushottam Prasad Sharma (57) and his wife Manju Purushottam Sharma alias Manju alias Altaf Shaikh (42), residents of Malad (West).
According to officials, the duo was involved in fabricating Aadhaar cards, PAN cards, voter IDs, and bank documents to facilitate the illegal stay of Bangladeshi nationals in India.
Investigations revealed that Manju Sharma, originally a Bangladeshi national, was living illegally in India for the past 12 years under a forged identity.
She entered India with the help of an agent and later married Purushottam Sharma, who allegedly assisted her in obtaining Indian identity documents by fraudulent means.
Police suspect that the accused were part of a larger network assisting Bangladeshi nationals in fabricating Indian citizenship documents to settle illegally in the country.
— source timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Aug 04, 2025