The Home Department on Friday asked DGP KB Singh to conduct a proper inquiry into the alleged Bangladeshi passport forgery case and submit a report at the earliest.
Home Secretary Asit Tripathy has written to the DGP in this regard, sources said.
Meanwhile, the Commissionerate Police said it would seek remand of Bangladeshi national Mohammad Bashir in connection with the latter’s attempt to secure passport by producing forged documents at the Regional Passport Office (RPO) here.
“We will soon apply for Mahammad Bashir and his aide’s remand in order to know their modus operandi,” said Commissioner of Police Satyabrat Bhoi
The police is interrogating other five Bangladeshis, who were held in Jajpur district in this connection and brought to Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. They were believed to have helped Bashir to forge the passport documents. Bashir, during questioning had taken names of these five.
“We have concrete evidence that all seven have intruded into India from Bangladesh and there is a middleman behind the whole episode. We are trying to nab him,” Bhoi added.
Bashir was arrested on Wednesday after his documents found to be forged by the RPO authorities. His voter’s identity card had a number which was allotted to a woman in Jajpur district, said an official at the RPO.