Bangladeshi national sentenced to three-year imprisonment by U.P. court for forging Indian passport

A court here has sentenced a Bangladeshi national to three years of imprisonment for travelling on a forged Indian passport and illegally registering land, a police official said on Tuesday (May 12, 2026).

Special Judge, Ballia, Ramkripal, on Monday (May 11) held Abdul Amin guilty and also imposed a fine of ₹10,000 on him, Superintendent of Police Omvir Singh said.

According to prosecution sources, a case was registered on March 14, 2023, at the Kotwal police station in Ballia against Amin, who hails from a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar of Bangladesh, on a written complaint by Inspector Bharat Bhushan Tiwari of the ATS Varanasi unit.

The case was registered under various sections of the IPC and under the Foreigners Act. It is alleged that Amin, with the assistance of individuals from Ballia, illegally obtained Indian documents and, based on them illegally registered land in Purushottampur located in the Pandua area of West Bengal's Hooghly district.

He also got a passport made using fraudulent means, and travelled twice to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia each. Following an investigation, police filed a charge sheet against Amin in the court.