Officials also filed a case against 24 individuals. The FIR identifies 24 people, including 16 officials, who are accused of providing passports based on fraudulent documents to ineligible people, including non-residents, in exchange for bribery. They stated the searches are taking place in Kolkata, Siliguri, Gangtok, and other cities. These operations were part of the agency's aggressive attempt to unravel and demolish a complex phoney passport scheme that had raised major questions about the integrity of the passport issue process.