After fake currency and other duplicate goods coming from China now it is the vanishing Chinese ink which is giving headaches to the security forces in India with the anti-national and anti-social elements most of them from Northeast misusing the same.

The special type of ‘vanishing ink’ is used by an international gang, for providing fake passports and has links to United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I), Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen of Bangladesh (JMB) and many other militant outfits operating in the region.

Meanwhile, a more disturbing trend has been found with the few pockets of open and porous Indo-Bhutan border becoming a transit point for militants of all kinds. The Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), which has been active here for decades is said to be the host of most terrorist groups here. It was reported that the KLO has organised several meetings here between NE groups and Maoists from Nepal, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and even the ISI.

The new equation between militants organisations from Nepal and Bangladesh with those in the northeast and West Bengal has come to the attention of Indian intelligence agencies The Central intelligence agencies came to know about the Chinese ink after the West Bengal Police busted a gang and arrested one Derek Nair, the kingpin of the racket.

From Derek they came to know that the gang had international links, with agents in Kolkata, Hyderabad, Dubai and Saudi Arabia as well as in major towns and cities in Nepal and Bangladesh. The modus operand seems to be very simple through Whatsapp, Derek would place orders for the Chinese ink from his contacts in China. His gang then would get hold of expired or rejected Indian passports.

He would use the special Chinese ink to remove the “rejected” stamp of the Regional Passport Office and then change the photograph and signature to come out with a forged passport. The quality of the forged one was found to be as good as the original and the Customs and the immigration officials would not be able to detect the changes.

The gang would charge around two lakh for an Indian passport and the militants have been using their services for the past several years. The “vanishing ink” is smuggled in from China to Ha in Bhutan and through Paro in that country is brought in jars to the border town. After Dubai and Saudi Arabia imposed restrictions on issuing visas to Bangladeshis, these infiltrators would pay and obtain forged Indian passports.

-TST