India, May 13 -- A court here has sentenced a Bangladeshi national to three years of imprisonment for travelling on a forged Indian passport and illegally registering land, a police official said on Tuesday.

Special Judge, Ballia, Ramkripal, on Monday held Abdul Amin guilty, and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him, Superintendent of Police Omvir Singh said.

According to prosecution sources, a case was registered on March 14, 2023, at the Kotwal police station in Ballia against Amin, who hails from a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar of Bangladesh, on a written complaint by Inspector Bharat Bhushan Tiwari of the ATS Varanasi unit. The case was registered under various sections of the IPC and under the Foreigners Act.

It is alleged that A...