Rohingya gets NID spending Tk 1.30 lakh, 10 arrested

Staff Reporter :
The detective branch of Chattogram Metropolitan Police detained 10 people on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in delivering national identification (NID) cards to the Rohingya refugees illegally in exchange of Tk 1,30,000 per head.
DB police Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Ali Hossain informed the newsmen of the matter in his office on Wednesday afternoon at Monsurabad in Chattogram.
Among the detainees, five are the data entry operators (contractual) of the election commission (EC). They are Yeasin Arafat, Nurnabi, Mizanur Rahman, Farhadul Islam and Emon Das.
The remaining detainees are Kamal Hossain, Sona Mia, Md Kamal, Nurul Absar and Shamsu master.
On a tip-off, police detained 10 people on Tuesday conducting a drive at Housing Estate High School in Halishahar — a place where Rohingya people came to have NID cards, Mohammad Ali Hossain said.
Of the detainees, five are working at EC as data entry operators.
He said during the primary interrogation, the suspects admitted that Shamsu master would charge Tk 130,000 to deliver NID to a Rohingya.
Then he handed over the money to Nurul Absar who later would manufacture a birth certificate for the Rohingya through a syndicate in Dhaka. The birth certificate is used to make the NID card.
Deputy commissioner of metropolitan police detective branch (West), Mohammad Ali Hossain, further said Shamsu master and Nurul Absar were arrested earlier over NID forgery in Cox’s Bazar. They later walked out of jail on bail. Police have filed a case over the incident.
The accused will be placed on remand to identify the other perpetrators.
Earlier, a lot of EC officials and fraud gang were held, ACC filed cases against the fraud gang.
On June 15, 2021, The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed two separate cases against 17 people, including two former people’s representatives in Chattogram, for giving fake national ID cards and birth certificates to four Rohingyas, three of whom were women.
On June 28, 2021, Chattogram Metropolitan Police’s (CMP) Counter Terrorism (CT) unit had arrested the personal secretary of Chattogram Election Commission (EC) office assistant Joynal on charge of helping Rohingya refugees obtain Bangladeshi National Identity (NID) cards with help of Election Commission staffers.
On April 15, 2021 members of Counter Terrorism (CT) of CMP arrested Md Najib Ullah (31)
from Naikhongchhari of Bandarban district on charge of helping Rohingya refugees obtain Bangladeshi National Identity (NID) cards with help of Election Commission staff.
On March 6, 2022, members of Counter Terrorism (CT) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested a former temporary data entry operator of Election Commission (EC) Md Bayan Uddin, 28, on charges of helping Rohingya refugees obtain Bangladeshi National Identity (NID) cards.