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The Bihar police on Tuesday evening raided the regional passport office in Patna and took into custody two of its employees Amarendra Kumar and Shiv Nandan in connection with the Farhan Malik fake passport case.
Another employee Mohan Lal was arrested in Nalanda on Tuesday.
Farhan, an accused in the American Centre shoot out case, claimed to be a resident of Biharsharif, headquarters of Nalanda district, in his passport application form though he has never visited the place.
Nalanda Superintendent of Police Amit Lodha, who spent over two and a half hours in the passport office, also examined the acting passport officer M Kujur.
It has now transpired that a CBI team visited the passport office on Friday last and seized the original application submitted by Farhan Malik.
Incidentally, Kujur took exception to the raid and informed higher ups about it.
Similarly, lawyers in Patna are on the warpath in protest against the manner in which two of their colleagues were arrested by the Nalanda police.
The police released one of them on Tuesday.
However, members of the Patna Civil Court Bar Association boycotted the lower court and threatened further action if the government failed to take any action against the police.
Meanwhile, the Biharsharif police on Tuesday found that the driving licence of Ibrahim, an accused in the USIS incident, was forged.
The police began investigating the issue following reports that the two persons killed on Monday in Hazaribagh got their driving licences from Biharsharif.
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