BENGALURU: A woman from Bangladesh was arrested on charges of staying illegally in the city and fake documents, passport and Aadhaar card were seized from her.
The accused, Roni Begum, allegedly entered India through West Bengal in 2006 and changed her name to Payal Ghosh after marrying Naveen Kumar in Mumbai. The couple shifted to Bengaluru in 2016 and worked in a garment factory at Anjana Nagar, Byadarahalli.
Begum got a passport and Aadhaar card in 2019 using local residential documents.
Deputy commissioner of police (west) Sanjeev Patil said officials from Kolkata Foreigners’ Regional Registration Office (FRRO) alerted their counterparts in Bengaluru about the accused.
“On January 9, 2020, immigration officials at Kolkata airport arrested a woman trying to fly to Dhaka with fake documents. When questioned, she said one more Bangladeshi woman had sneaked into the country and was in Bengaluru. Based on FRRO inputs, city police launched an investigation. They visited Mumbai and other places to collect information and finally zeroed in on her a couple of days ago,” he said. Patil said legal action will be initiated against those who helped her get fake documents.
