Afghan kingpin behind fake Indian passport racket busted in Jabalpur, MP
Khan, who had married a local woman during his stay and managed to obtain an Indian passport in 2020 using forged documents, was reportedly helping other Afghan youths residing illegally in West Bengal and Chhattisgarh to obtain Indian passports using fake address proofs linked to Jabalpur.
The two local aides arrested alongside Khan have been identified as Dinesh Garg (40), a resident of Jabalpur's Vijay Nagar area and a forest guard posted at the election cell in the Jabalpur district collector's office, and Mahendra Kumar Sukhdan (45).
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