Dhaka, Sept. 10 -- While tracing back the birth certificate provided by a recently arrested Rohingya man, Mohammad Faisal, for passport, bdnews24.com has found he had forged the document.

Faisal mentioned the name of the ward from where he had obtained the certificate as Lalkhan Bazar in the port city of Chattogram, but the code number for ward in the 17-digit ID number was actually of Rampur ward.

AF Kabir Ahmed Manik, the councillor of Lalkhan Bazar, says he did not issue the certificate.

The serial number of the certificate did not match those used in the ward, Manik told bdnews24.com.

It had Manik's signature but used the ward secretary's signature instead of the assistant birth registrar's, which is mandatory.

"It was made by ab...