2 held for providing fake Aadhaar cards, other govt papers to 1,000 people

Noida Police on Thursday arrested two persons from Noida’s Gejha village for allegedly forging Aadhaar cards and other government documents of several persons

Noida Police on Thursday arrested two persons from Noida’s Gejha village for allegedly forging Aadhaar cards and other government documents of several persons.

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Police identified them by their first names as Sachin (25) and Alam (24), residents of Noida Phase 2 and Wajidpur village, respectively.

Additional deputy commissioner of police (Noida Central) Ankur Agarwal said, “Police received a tipoff about the activities of the two persons. Police went to Gejha village to investigate and searched their houses from where they recovered 19 Aadhaar cards, five PAN cards, 55 voter IDs, ₹42,000 cash, two laptops, a computer and printer from their possession. All the ID documents were fake.”

Police said when they were questioned, they admitted to visiting different places in the state over the past one year, offering people a driving licence for ₹1,200, an Aadhaar card for ₹150 and a PAN for ₹200. “They gave their customers forged documents/IDs,” Agarwal said.

Station house officer (SHO), Phase 2 police station, Sujeet Upadhyaya said, “They made nearly ₹1 lakh a month in this manner and have cheated nearly 1,000 people so far.”

A case was registered against them under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) at the Phase 2 police station. They were produced before a court that sent them to judicial custody.