Mahesh Jethmalani@JethmalaniM
The real border breach!
Where is it happening?
After the West Bengal election and the massive victory of BJP, everyone is talking about the porous borders.
But the real border breach may have been happening inside fake Aadhaar shops in West Bengal.
In the last decade, multiple terror-linked cases in West Bengal have shown the same disturbing pattern: illegal entry, fake Indian identity, fake Aadhaar, fake voter documents, SIM cards, rented rooms, movement across states, and then terror networks hiding in plain sight.
From the 2017 ABT/Al-Qaeda-linked arrests in Kolkata, to the NIA’s JMB case in South 24 Parganas, to the 2026 terror module busted across Bengal and Tamil Nadu, fake Aadhaar keeps appearing in every case. Even 2 Chinese nationals were detained at Bagdogra Airport in West Bengal with forged Aadhaar cards, expired visas, and fake passports after traveling to Nepal, Bhutan, and Pakistan.
This is infrastructure. Fake Aadhaar factories are not just helping someone get a job or a rented room. They are helping terror-linked operatives become invisible inside India.
It is a weaponised identity. And that is why the new Suvendu Adhikari government in West Bengal has to treat it as a national-security priority from Day One.
Every fake Aadhaar factory must be mapped. Every syndicate producing forged identity papers must be broken. Every SIM-card racket, fake voter ID pipeline, illegal rental network, and document middleman operating along the border belt must be investigated.
Fake identity networks do not merely help one infiltrator survive. They create an ecosystem where foreign handlers, sleeper cells, recruiters, couriers and illegal operatives can disappear into the crowd.
If Bengal wants to secure itself, the crackdown cannot stop at the fence. It has to enter the printing shops, cyber cafés, Aadhaar enrolment rackets, panchayat-level document chains, local political protection networks and every factory where Indian identity was being manufactured for people who had no right to possess it.
Now that the work to dethrone the evil TMC government has been done, the bigger challenge awaits - detoxifying the state’s security architecture after years of border softness, document fraud and political patronage.
Because Bengal is not just another state.
Bengal is India’s eastern gate.
And if that gate is secured, India’s intelligence network becomes stronger.
If that gate is compromised, every fake Aadhaar can become the beginning of a terror file.
