Farhan’s trail leads to arrest of retired SI

biharsharif: ramraj ram, a retired sub-inspector (si) of the biharsharif police station, was arrested on sunday from his village in the bhojpur district on the charge of entering into a conspiracy to grant fake and fictitious certificate for the issuance of passport to farhan mallick, suspected to be involved in the recent american center attack in kolkata.ram, who was brought here for interrogation, has confessed that he had given a favourable certificate at the instance of the then deputy sp z ahmad's reader. giving this information, nalanda sp amit lodha said that ahmad, who is currently hajipur sdpo, is being summoned for further investigation. farhan is a notorious international criminal accused of engineering attack on american center in kolkata. ahmad was not available for comments in hajipur where pamphlets against him were distributed by 'vaishali zila deshpremi janata' on sunday. he is on two days' leave, vaishali sp shobha ohatker told our hajipur correspondent. the matter concerning prof abdul rahman gilani of village gilani under the sare police station of the nalanda district, who was arrested for the attack on the parliament house on december 13, has not yet been fully solved. now, the link of another terrorist, farhan, who is said to be the son of mumtaz mallick of garhpar locality here, with the nalanda district has come to light. the notoriety of farhan came to the knowledge of the nalanda police when haripa shah, deputy sp of west bengal cid, came to biharsharif in connection with the inquiry of kidnapping of pratim roy burman of kolkata because the the passport to farhan was issued on the basis of a certificate granted by the biharsharif police. on the report of the kolkata police about the fake passport and fictitious person, an fir 375/2001 was lodged on october 1, 2001 by trainee deputy sp shailesh kumar sinha under sections 419, 420, 468, 471, 472, 120b and 124a of the ipc against farhan and six others. those figuring in the fir included ration card issuing officer, the then si of the bihar police station ram raj ram, witness binoy kumar, lawyer d singh, notary suresh prasad (both from patna) and mohammad ibrahim, an identifier from garhpar. though the case was entrusted to si devendra prasad, no progress was made in the investigation work. but after the suspected involvement of farhan in the american center attack in kolkata, the police here took a serious note of it and expedited the investigation. sp lodha admitted that the inquiring officer should have taken care and caution before forwarding the application of farhan for the grant of passport. he said he had examined the then munshis of the bihar police station shambhu acharya and ramashere prasad. they affirmed that the inquiry on the petition of farhan never came to the bihar police station and there was no signature of the then officer-in-charge vijay kumar yadav on it. the sp further said the petition of farhan was given by si ram raj ram, while the then deputy sp (headquarters) z ahmad disposed it at his level. surprisingly, there is no mention of the name of deputy sp ahmad. the sp said the inquiry was made about the genuineness of the certificate issued by patel school, biharsharif, and also the ration card. it showed that there is no mention of the name of farhan in the school register or the name of ration card dealer of biharsharif.