Noida Police busts a fake passport racket, seven held
The main accused ran a shop at Gaur City 2’s Mahagun Mywoods residential society and has made more than 100 passports bypassing police verification
New Delhi, November 23
The Greater Noida Police busted a syndicate that ran a fake passport racket and arrested seven persons.
The police identified the accused as Sachin Jauhari (25), S Vinod Kumar (25), Sanjid Dey (19), Sandeep Kumar (35), Birendra Garg (42), Veerendra Saxena (34) and Durgesh Kumar (44).
Jauhari has got around 100 passports made bypassing police verification. He has applied for more than 500 passports over the years.
The officials said that the passport racket came to the fore when Bisrakh police went to verify passport applications of S Vinod Kumar and Sanjid Dey, originally from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The police team found neither stayed at the address they had given while applying for passport, he added.
The two men were traced to a shop owned by Sachin Jauhari at Mahagun Mart, located in Gaur City 2’s Mahagun Mywoods residential society.
The investigation showed that Jauhari ran a shop that helped in making fake passports. Kumar and Dey said they were employed as sales promoters at a Hong Kong-based company that also has an office at Gaur City in Greater Noida. They needed to attend a company event in Dubai for which they needed to get passports made. A colleague of Kumar and Dey allegedly told them to get in touch with Jauhari, who created fake address and rent agreement for the two and charged Rs 15,000 each for the same.
The police have seized around 14 duplicate copies of notaries of various departments, fake rent agreements, 10 stamp papers, five cellphones and an laptop from him.
The police have booked the gang under sections 341(1)(2) (counterfeiting), 61(criminal conspiracy), 3 (5)(criminal act) of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Passports Act.
