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Bengal: Afghan national with fake Indian passport arrested at airport

November 18, 2025

Kolkata, Nov 18

An Afghan national with a fake Indian passport was arrested at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport on Tuesday in West Bengal.

According to the police, a lookout notice was issued in his name in Afghanistan. The man was trying to flee abroad via India. The police, however, caught him red-handed.

The arrest comes in the backdrop of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of West Bengal's electoral rolls by the Election Commission.

A large number of people are living in India illegally and are in fear of being exposed as a result of the SIR exercise.

 

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