Pune: The Pune Rural police , acting on an input from the state anti-terrorism squad, on Wednesday arrested a Bangladeshi couple staying illegally in Baramati since 1998. Preliminary investigations, based on the recovery of incriminating documents from the couple’s house and their statements, established that the 57-year-old man and his wife hail from Khulna district in Bangladesh. The police recovered Indian passports, Aadhaar, PAN cards and other documents from their house.
A sub-inspector from the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) lodged a complaint with the Baramati taluka police. An officer from the Pune Rural police said the police team raided the suspects’ house located at Parwadi in Baramati and took the couple into custody. “During the questioning, they admitted that they were from Bangladesh.
The couple had earlier stayed at Pargaon in Satara district, Rashin in Ahmednagar district and Parwadi in Baramati,” he said. He said the man claimed that he had illegally come to India in 1993 and stayed at Akluj. “He returned to India in 1998 after getting married there,” he said.
The police found copies of the prescription of a medical practitioner from Bangladesh. The duo have been charged under sections 318 (cheating), 336, 338 (forgery) and 340 (forged document or electronic record and using it as genuine) of the BNS and the relevant sections of the Passport (Entry to India) Rules and the Foreigners Act. We also published the following articles recently Here's why Aj.