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Kurukshetra, April 20
Another case of obtaining a passport on the basis of forged documents has come to light in Pehowa of Kurukshetra.
The Kurukshetra police have registered four FIRs in the recent past in the Pehowa City police station.
In an FIR registered on Monday evening, Harinder Singh of Punjab had shown himself as Pehowa resident. He got his passport in February 2020 and showed himself as a resident of Diwan Colony, while no such person resides at the given address. He was booked under various Sections of the IPC and Passports Act.
Similar FIRs were registered against Taranjeet, alias KD, of Uttarakhand, and Yuvraj Singh of Punjab. The police said while the criminal records of Harinder and Yuvraj were yet to be known, Taranjeet was presently lodged in a jail in Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand.
The Kurukshetra police on Monday had arrested Mohit Guglani of Pehowa, Sumit of Punjab and Vikram of Ambala City for their involvements in preparing passports using forged documents for Punjab-based gangster Harmanpreet Singh, against whom a case was registered.
DSP (Headquarters) Subhash Chander said: “We had arrested Mohit, Sumit and Vikram for preparing forged documents. Mohit had prepared documents for Harinder, Harmanpreet, Yuvraj and one more person, whose records are being traced. There is another case in which Taranjeet had also got a passport using fake papers but Mohit had denied making them for him. We have applied for his production warrant and he is expected to be brought on April 27.”
“The clients were provided by Sumit, while Mohit used to prepare forged documents and then Vikram Verma, who was posted through a private firm at the passport office, used to facilitate them. The passports were prepared from August 2019 to February 2020,” he added.
The DSP said: “We will investigate and then take action against the people involved in this racket. The involvement of more officials of the passport office can’t be denied.” — TNS
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