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Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Forgery racket busted in Bareilly; two arrested
Bareilly police have busted an interstate gang creating fake government documents, including Aadhaar and PAN cards, domicile certificates, income and caste proofs, and even academic marksheets, authorities said on Friday. The forgery racket was being run under the guise of a Jan Seva Kendra (public service centre) in the Bhojipura area, they added. Acting on a tip-off, police raided Azhari Jan Seva Kendra and Aadhaar Card Center on Friday and uncovered a sophisticated setup used for creating forged documents. Two prime accused, identified as Mohammad Faheem alias Guddu and Ziaul Mustafa, were arrested from the centre. Both had been running the illegal operation for nearly a year, earning lakhs of rupees through fake documentation, authorities said. Confirming the arrests, superintendent of police (north) Mukesh Chandra Mishra said investigations are ongoing to identify potential clients and other members of the racket. 'We are tracing the source and destination of these forged documents. The racket may have wider links across states,' Mishra said. According to police, the accused were operating from the Pachdaura Dohariya area within Bhojipura police station limits. Faheem, who had prior experience with Aadhaar enrolment while working for Baroda U.P. Gramin Bank, used his technical knowledge to set up the forgery racket. He was joined by Mustafa, who had been preparing for NEET after passing Class 12. The accused reportedly began their fraudulent activities after Faheem was removed from his Aadhaar operator role due to a complaint lodged with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The complaint stated that he was illegally charging ₹100 per Aadhaar card, violating the standard charges of ₹18 for new enrolments and ₹13 for updates. After being dismissed, he opened the Jan Seva Kendra and brought Mustafa, a Class 10 pass, on board to expand their operations, police explained. During the raid, police recovered a huge cache of forged documents and hi-tech equipment. The seized items included a laptop, a PVC card machine, a monitor, a CPU, two printers/scanners, a DSLR camera, a webcam, a camera stand, a large fingerprint scanner, two small thumb scanners, two camera control units, and three mobile phones, officials said. Among the documents recovered were 20 fake birth certificates, 15 forged domicile certificates, five fake income certificates, 15 forged stamp papers, a fake Bihar Board Class 10 marksheet, a fake UP Board Class 10 marksheet, 20 fake Aadhaar cards, two PAN cards, 44 black plastic Aadhaar cards, and a fake voter ID card. Despite their modest educational backgrounds, both Faheem and Mustafa managed to set up a technically advanced facility capable of producing forged documents that could deceive even trained officials, police said adding authorities were scanning the seized digital devices to collect data and trace possible links to similar operations elsewhere.
New Indian Express
22-05-2025
- New Indian Express
75-year-old woman strangled to death by her grandson in Odisha's Kaniha forest
ANGUL: Kaniha police arrested a 25-year-old youth of Santribida village for allegedly killing his grandmother on Wednesday. Police said the accused, Bapuji Biswal of Santribida strangulated his 75-year-old grandmother, Gurubari Biswal to death inside a forest near their village. IIC of Kaniha police station R R Dalei, said Bapuji was jailed for his involvement in the murder of a minor in 2022. After being released from prison recently, he was living with his parents and grandmother. On the day, Gurubari went to the local Jan Seva Kendra to update her Aadhaar card. Bapuji arrived there on a motorcycle and offered to take her home. However, instead of taking his grandmother home, the accused headed to the village forest. After reaching there, he strangulated Gurubari to death with his hands and absconded, said Dalei. When the elderly woman did not reach home, family members along with some villagers launched a search and found her body in the nearby forest. On being informed, police reached the spot for investigation. The body was seized for postmortem. The IIC said police suspected the role of Bapuji in the crime as he was missing after the incident. The accused was nabbed after tracking his mobile phone. 'Police are yet to establish the motive behind the crime. The accused will be interrogated and we are hopeful of finding out the cause of the murder,' he said. The accused will be produced in court on Thursday and further investigation is underway, the IIC added.
New Indian Express
07-05-2025
- Health
- New Indian Express
PM-JAY portal snags leave patients in a spot in Odisha
CUTTACK: The recent launch of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) in Odisha might have brought with itself the promise of an improved healthcare delivery system, but the complexities in its implementation on the ground has left patients and healthcare personnel in a sticky situation. In such a scenario, patients with life-threatening diseases, given the time-sensitive nature of their conditions, are more at risk as delay in treatment can pose severe consequences. In a recent instance, a 52-year-old brain stroke patient, who was in coma and required immediate surgery, was turned away by a city-based private hospital because he could not undergo the iris scanning. Unable to avail the scheme's benefits and the pricey ICU charges left his family with no other option than to leave the hospital. He was, however, lucky as the next hospital he got admitted to, carried out his iris scanning during the CT scanning procedure, and his surgery was conducted smoothly. In another case, family members of a 42-year-old man suffering from strangulated hernia had to pay cash to conduct his surgery as there appeared a glitch while uploading his ration card on the portal. Though they visited the Jan Seva Kendra for help and also dialled the helpline number 104, nothing could solve their problem. Since there is possibility of gangrene if strangulated hernia is not operated within 48 hours, the family members had no other option than to pay cash for surgery. The protocol used in the earlier Bjiu Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) was very simple. Any member of the family could enrol the patient under the scheme just by using his Aadhaar card. But, in AB PM-JAY, self-identification through iris scanner is necessary which is often difficult in some cases, especially when a patient is in coma stage, said a doctor who runs a private hospital.
