Kolkata. Another contract employee of the Postal Department was arrested from Bengal on Tuesday in the case of making fake Indian passports for illegal Bangladeshi residents. The arrested person has been identified as Taraknath Sen.

Sen is the second contract employee of the postal department to be arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police in the last 48 hours. On December 15, two people named Samaresh Biswas and Deepak Mandal were arrested in connection with the fake passport racket. Earlier, Samaresh's son Ripon was arrested. Deepak was also a contract employee of the postal department.

Some permanent employees are also involved in this racket

Police sources said that the consecutive arrests of two contractual employees of the Postal Department have strengthened the suspicion that such a racket has developed a network among some insiders of the said department. Investigation is being conducted to find out whether some permanent employees of the said department were also involved in this racket.

Arrangements were also made for fake Indian identity documents

Investigating officers have identified several common patterns in the functioning of these rackets that arrange fake Indian identity documents for Bangladeshi infiltrators. Recently, Salim Matbbar, a former associate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was arrested from a hotel in the Park Street area of ​​central Kolkata.

The police also recovered a fake Indian passport from his possession. Investigation revealed that Mattabbar managed to procure his fake Indian documents from a racket operating from the India-Bangladesh border district of Nadia after crossing the border illegally.

More than 200 corruption cases are locked in CBI files in Bengal

More than 200 corruption cases are pending in the CBI office in Bengal. In fact, since 2018, the state government has stopped giving its consent in the cases of the central agency. Due to this, there has been a pile of complaints in the files of the CBI in the last six years. Most of these are cases related to financial corruption.

According to CBI sources, as per the Constitution, all states have to register cases under Sections 5 and 6 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946. Article number six states that no FIR can be registered in any case including financial corruption without the consent of the concerned state.

CBI is investigating various allegations of corruption in Bengal

Since 1989, the CBI has been investigating various allegations of corruption against central and state government officials in Bengal. There was no hindrance in compliance by the state till 2018. Three out of four CBI offices in the state investigate financial frauds. From bank frauds to corruption of central and state government officials, investigation of corruption in government departments falls under the purview of these three departments. But sources claim that due to lack of permission from the state, it is becoming difficult for the CBI to take action even after getting evidence of corruption.

CBI arrested many senior officers

A CBI official said that we have arrested many senior officials of the state and central government. The central agency claims that in the absence of the consent of the state, the court is not accepting the chargesheet against the accused as per the law and the trial process is not being started.