Police on April 30, Thursday arrested two persons identified as Pankaj Kumar and Jaspreet Singh in Rajpura for allegedly selling fake voter identity cards for Rs. 1000.
SSP Arpit Shukla said police have busted a gang of preparing take voter identity cards and selling them for Rs. 1000.
He said that police has recovered four fake cards form their possession.
Police has also recovered Computer, printer and scanner allegedly used for preparing the fake identity cards.
On specific information police raided a cyber cafe in Ghnesh Nagar area and caught the duo red handed while making id-cards and have recovered four cards from their possession.
While a case has been registered senior officials confirmed that the accused could have a large nexus and involvement of politicians or some other officials could not be ruled out. "As for now the accused have said that the people used to pay them Rs 1,000 per cards which were used in opening bank accounts and other domestic purposes. But more could be ascertained only after detailed grilling of the accused", he said.
The SSP did not rule out the possibility of the cards being misused by anti-social elements as the cards in itself are a proof of anyone being a citizen of the country.
"This a serious case as the cards prepared by these accused are very difficult to be differentiated from the original cards issued by the appropriate authority", he said.
SSP Arpit Shukla said police have busted a gang of preparing take voter identity cards and selling them for Rs. 1000. He said that police has recovered four fake cards form their possession.
Police has also recovered Computer, printer and scanner allegedly used for preparing the fake identity cards.
On specific information police raided a cyber cafe in Ghnesh Nagar area and caught the duo red handed while making id-cards and have recovered four cards from their possession.
While a case has been registered senior officials confirmed that the accused could have a large nexus and involvement of politicians or some other officials could not be ruled out. "As for now the accused have said that the people used to pay them Rs 1,000 per cards which were used in opening bank accounts and other domestic purposes. But more could be ascertained only after detailed grilling of the accused", he said.
The SSP did not rule out the possibility of the cards being misused by anti-social elements as the cards in itself are a proof of anyone being a citizen of the country.
"This a serious case as the cards prepared by these accused are very difficult to be differentiated from the original cards issued by the appropriate authority", he said.
