After tip-off, city’s Crime Investigation Unit trail leads to Jharkhand-based owner of human resource consultancy, who forged Aadhaar, PAN, and other documents for 60-year-old Versova man creating a completely new persona

An investigation has revealed that Akhtar Hussain Qutubuddin Ahmed, a 60-year-old posing as a Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) nuclear scientist named Ali Reza Hoseini and possessing three passports issued in the name of Alexander Palmer, had purchased his identity in 2016 from a Jharkhand-based individual, Munazzil Khan, for as little as Rs 19,000. A tip-off to the police brought an end to the charade more than a week ago, and Mumbai Crime Branch’s Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) subsequently traced Khan through Ahmed’s digital trail and arrested him from Jharkhand

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