Sheikh Moinuddin, originally from Khulna, Bangladesh lived in India as Palash Adhikari

Why SIR is needed in Waste Bengal twice everyday or thrice every week! 

This is how Sheikh Moinuddin, originally from Ahmedpur in Khulna, Bangladesh lived in India as Palash Adhikari.....

In Madhya Pradesh, a man named Palash Adhikari was detained on suspicion of being an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant. The police refused to accept his Indian identity documents, like Aadhaar card, voter ID, PAN card, and others, claiming he was not a genuine citizen, despite his insistence that he was a Hindu Indian from West Bengal.

The case reached court, where Palash confidently provided his details:

* Name: Palash Adhikari  

* Age: 42  

* Father’s name: Ramesh Adhikari  

* Native place: Kashimpur, Malda, West Bengal  

Initial verification through the Election Commission’s voter list and Aadhaar database appeared to support him. Ramesh Adhikari, born in 1962 in Malda, had been a registered voter since 1984. His family including his wife and four sons (Palash, Subrata, Soumen, and Rahul) were listed on the current voter rolls. On paper, everything seemed legitimate, prompting demands for Palash’s immediate release.

Yet the judge remained uneasy and ordered a deeper probe. Older records were pulled out:

* The 2002 Special Investigation Report (SIR) for the area listed Ramesh Adhikari as having only two sons: Subrata and Soumen.  

* The 2010 voter list showed the same, only Subrata and Soumen. No Palash, no Rahul.  

* Suddenly, in the 2015 voter list, two additional sons, Palash and Rahul, appeared out of nowhere.

Palash claimed his name had simply been “added” in 2015.

Further scrutiny of family timelines made the story collapse. Ramesh Adhikari had married in 1993. His first son, Subrata, was born in 1995 (currently 30), and the second, Soumen, in 1997 (currently 28). A 42-year-old son would mean Ramesh fathered him around 1983, ten years before his marriage and when his documented older sons would have been negative ages.

💥Mathematics was impossible.

Confronted with the contradictions, the man finally admitted his real identity: he was Sheikh Moinuddin, originally from Ahmedpur in Khulna, Bangladesh. Ramesh Adhikari, a local farmer who was later questioned, confirmed he had never heard of anyone named Palash or Rahul Adhikari and had only two sons. He had no idea HOW A COMPLETE STRANGER FROM BANGLADESH HAD INSERTED himself into his family records AS A THIRD SON.

For the past decade, under the assumed Hindu identity of Palash Adhikari, Sheikh Moinuddin had lived in India as a migrant labourer while allegedly engaging in extremist activities.

The case exposed a serious loophole: thousands of infiltrators have reportedly managed to insert themselves into voter lists and obtain official Indian documents by exploiting weak verification processes, porous borders, and sometimes local complicity. The incident has renewed calls for a comprehensive, nationwide re-verification of voter rolls and identity documents to weed out such fraudulent entries. 

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* How India Travels