Rohingya youth held trying to get passport
Carrying a Bangladeshi National Identity Card (NID), a Rohingya youth was detained from Chattogram Panchlaish Passport Office, while he was trying to get a passport yesterday noon.
He was caught during document verification and later handed over to Panchlaish Police Station.
The detainee is Obaidul Haque (25), a resident of Chattogram's Lohagara upazila.
Masaum Hasan, deputy director of the passport office, told The Daily Star, "Obaidul applied for a passport by showing his NID card and documents of local administration, but his fingerprint was found in the Rohingya database during biometric verification."
"Later, we also checked his NID number and found his information in the election commission (EC) server," he continued.
"His information in the NID server and Rohingya database is the same," Masum said, adding that later, he was handed over to police.
Last year, Chattogram police and passport officials said some Rohingya refugees were making Bangladeshi passports using fraudulent NID cards, with the help of some locals and Rohingya brokers.
The Rohingyas were using fake names and addresses while applying for identification documents, and a section of unscrupulous EC staffers provided NID cards in exchange for money.
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