Osman’s passport address of Panch Ruhi, Monuharganj, Comilla in Bangladesh becomes Panch Ruhi village of Monuharpurganj in West Tripura, India. Pin — 799261. His passport name of Osman Goni becomes Mohd. Osman Ghani in the student card — a fake address and a fake identity during his stay in India.

The card was to expire on August 30, 2007 but he was nabbed a week before that and remains in custody. The probe agencies are trying to find out where all did he go during his stay in India.

Shohael Rumy was another recent arrest near the Haridaspur checkpost. He too was trying to slip back into Bangladesh after spending more than a year beyond the validity of his student visa to India. It appears from the documents the Express has that Shohael first came to India from Bangladesh on a tourist visa in 2002. He was once again granted a student visa for one year from November 10, 2004 to November 9, 2005.

With him were three sets of student identity cards — one for a Hyderabad institute and the other two for Lucknow’s. Shohael had two addresses in Bangladesh — one of Daulatpur in Noakhali and the other of Dhanmondi in Dhaka. His photo on the passport and those on the student cards vary widely. In the passport photo, Shohael is clean-shaven but in the cards, he sports a long beard and a topi. One of the cards was for Ilmahad-ul-Aali-Al-Islami, Hyderabad. The card describes it is a centre for “research and specialisation in Islamic sciences”.

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