Delhi police busts fake passport racket

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 24-year-old man has been arrested here with fake Indian currency with nominal value of Rs.44,350, police said Thursday. Alok Kumar Singh, who hails from Bihar, was arrested Wednesday from near an ice cream booth in Patparganj in east Delhi, and the fake currency notes in the denomination of Rs.50 and Rs.100 were seized from him.

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police have arrested five people for their alleged involvement in a passport racket, officials said Thursday. The accused used to prepare passports under 'Tatkal' scheme by using forged letterheads of army officers and forged verification by army officers, police said.

August 29th, 2009 MUMBAI - Mumbai police on Saturday said that counterfeit currency was flowing into Mumbai from Dubai and Bangladesh. Speaking on the sidelines of laying the foundation stone of a Police Academy here, Mumbai's police commissioner D.

August 13th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The anti-terrorism squad of Gujarat on Thursday claimed to have busted a fake currency racket with the arrest of a key operative on Thursday and recovered counterfeit notes with a face value of about 135,000 rupees from him. Asghar Ali was arrested on Wednesday (Aug.

August 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police on Thursday arrested two persons allegedly involved in the printing and distribution of counterfeit notes from Jasola Village near Ashram area of the national capital. Police recovered fake Indian currency notes having a face value of 700,000 rupees from the duo.

July 29th, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu police have busted a racket of fake CDs with the arrest of four persons from whom it recovered pirated audio and video compact discs worth rupees 600,000 here. About 1.4 million fake CDs of Hollywood, Bollywood and Tamil movies have been seized.

July 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The special cell of Delhi police has arrested four people, allegedly running a racket of preparing fake foreign visas and work permits. "Three accused - Nand Kishore, Dhruv Kumar and Mohammad Hussain - were arrested from New Friends Colony area Thursday on the basis of information from intelligence agencies.

May 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A fake visa racket has been busted in the capital with the arrest of two people who forged foreign visas and passports for Afghan nationals, Delhi Police said Saturday. Sleuths of Delhi Police's special cell arrested Anil Dhawan and Pritpal Singh Friday and recovered 54 fake Indian passports, blank visa stickers, 22 fake stamps of Indian immigration authorities, embassies of Schengen countries, nationalised banks, a computer and its peripherals used in making fake documents from them, a police official said.

April 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two men, hailing from Karnataka, were nabbed here Monday with counterfeit currency with the nominal value of Rs.5 lakh, police said. 'Mohammad Javed Pasha and Afzal Khan were arrested in Gomti Nagar locality by sleuths of the special task force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh police,' Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal told reporters.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police said they have cracked a fake currency racket with the arrest of a young woman in possession of counterfeit currency with the nominal value of Rs.18 lakh (Rs.1.8 million). A special cell in north-east Delhi arrested 24-year-old Rizwana March 14 after a probe into a specific tip off about her alleged involvement, police officials said.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police said they have cracked a fake currency racket with the arrest of a young woman in possession of counterfeit currency with the nominal value of Rs.18 lakhs (Rs.1.8 million). A special cell in north-east Delhi arrested 24-year-old Rizwana March 14 after a probe into a specific tip off abour her alleged involvement, police officials said.

March 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - In connection with the 1993 fake passport case, Under World don Abu Salem was produced in the special CBI court of Special judicial magistrate Saif Ahmad, who set March 30 as the next date of the hearing. Amid tight security arrangements, Salem was taken from Kaisarbagh police station to CBI court for hearing.

January 21st, 2009 AGARTALA - A Tripura police official has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a fake international currency racket, officials Thursday said. 'The Tripura and Mizoram police, along with other special police wings of the northeastern states, have been probing to find out the details about the racket,' said Anish Prasad, Tripura's Dhalai district police chief.

January 7th, 2009 PATNA - Over 100,000 fake certificates of various Indian universities have been found in a Bihar town, police said Thursday, even as the government cracks down on irregularities in the education system. Acting on a tip off, a police team raided five places in Biharsharif town in Nalanda district, 100 km from here, and unearthed the racket in fake certificates.

January 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW/BHOPAL - Five people have been arrested and fake currency with a face value of over Rs.100,000 seized in separate raids carried out in two towns of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, police said Saturday. Two people, including a woman, were held with counterfeit currency notes amounting to Rs.100,000 in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district Friday night, district police chief Lalji Shukla told IANS over telephone.