KISHANGANJ (Bihar) — Police in Bihar’s border district of Kishanganj have arrested two Bangladeshi nationals residing illegally in India alongside a local resident who allegedly acted as their agent and facilitated their stay.
Acting on specific intelligence supplied to Acting Superintendent of Police Harimohan Shukla, a joint team led by SDPO-I Khusru Siraj and the District Intelligence Unit (DIU) initiated a targeted vehicle-checking operation near Prem Pul on Monday.
During the drive, officers signaled a suspicious motorcyclist to stop. The rider attempted to evade the checkpoint but was quickly intercepted and detained by armed police personnel. The suspect was identified as 24-year-old Zakir Hussain, a resident of Dealer Chowk in Mahin village, Kishanganj.
Subsequent interrogation of Hussain led investigators to execute raids in Mahin village, resulting in the arrest of a Bangladeshi couple—32-year-old Hasan Sheikh (alias Hasan Ullah) from Shariatpur district, Bangladesh, and his 28-year-old wife, Taiba Islam (alias Tanzila Akhtar), hailing from Narayanganj district.
According to senior police officials, the couple had been residing illegally in the area for a prolonged period without valid travel documents or visas permitting their stay in India. Investigators revealed that Hussain was allegedly harboring the foreign nationals at his residence and operating as their local handler to help them assimilate undetected.
During search procedures, law enforcement seized several incriminating items, including forged Aadhaar and PAN cards, eight mobile SIM cards, two smartphones, a motorcycle, Indian currency, and Bangladeshi Taka.
An FIR has been registered at the Kishanganj Police Station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) pertaining to forgery and illegal entry. Given the potential national security implications and cross-border linkages, central intelligence agencies, including the Intelligence Bureau (IB), have joined the probe to unravel the wider network involved in human smuggling and document forgery along the international border.
