Sunday, May 05, 2024 | Last Update : 05:43 PM IST
Two held in fake motor vehicle licence scam
Officials have seized 35 fake licences and investigators said that many more licences are likely to have been forged.
Mumbai: The Mumbai crime branch has busted a fake motor vehicle licence racket, arresting two persons. Officials have seized 35 fake licences and investigators said that many more licences are likely to have been forged.
The investigation revealed that the duo, identified as Baba Gujar, 52, and Kamlesh Giri alias Munna, 40, had created fake licences at Gujar’s residence in Nerul and sold them for Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000 to motorists, mostly two-wheeler riders.
A team headed by inspector Pravin Tejale, officer Mahendra Ghag and others apprehended the accused persons a fter one of them came to deliver a fake licence at the residence of a customer in Manadala village in Mankhurd.
Upon frisking him, 20 such forged licences were found. A crime branch officer said, “The riders would use the fake licences for bypassing payment of steep fines and would mostly let the police constable keep the license when apprehended as the document had forged details of the rider.”
The police team found a computer, photo printer, digitisers and other equipment from Gujar’s residence. The accused had been selling fake licences and PUC cards for the last couple of years.
Speaking about the haul, another police officer said, “We have found a stash of unprinted licences along with metal chips that were used in the process, and have also recovered two press cards made by the accused to flash when flagged down by policemen during checks andnakabandis.”
The accused have been booked for cheating, forgery, forging documents and acts of common intention as per provisions of the Indian Penal Code and have been remanded to police custody for questioning.
