Bangladeshi intruder arrested in Kashi

Varanasi: Ramnagar police on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday arrested one Mohd Bashar, a Bangladeshi intruder living in India without a visa and passport, when he was heading to Nepal via Bihar to sell articles he stole from a studio in the Alankar area of Pune (Maharashtra).During initial investigation, it came to light that he opened a bank account through a fake DL and Aadhaar procured from Hyderabad.ACP, Kotwali, Vijay Pratap Singh on Sunday said that on being alerted by informers regarding movement of a Bangladeshi staying in India without a visa and passport on Varanasi-Howrah highway via highway towards Bihar on a motorbike, cops from Ramnagar police station launched a checking drive late on Friday night and succeeded in nabbing Bashar in Sujabad area.Apart from a high-end motorcycle, police recovered drone, expensive cameras, iPad, watch, camera stand and other electronic equipment from his possession. Regarding these articles, he confessed that on March 14 he broke into a studio in Alankar area of Karvnagar, Navsahyadri in Pune and decamped with booty. The motorcycle he was riding was hired by him from his friend. He said that he was taking these articles to Nepal to sell. When police investigation progressed, his forged documents, including driving licence, Aadhaar card, bank passbook and other, were also recovered by police, the ACP said, adding that during detailed interrogation Bashar divulged that he reached Kathmandu (Nepal) from Dhaka on Feb 20 and then entered India through the Raksaul border in Bihar. Bashar went to Hyderabad and Maharashtra. To conceal his identity in India, he got an Aadhaar card and driving licence made in Hyderabad under a fake name and address. On this basis, he opened an account at a nationalised bank's Balapur branch (Hyderabad) and managed issuance of a debit card.