HYDERABAD: An online services centre owner, in collusion with a passport agent, a GHMC computer operator and three other private individuals, created 10,000 fake Aadhar cards, 15,000 voter ID cards, 50 passports, 2,000 birth certificates and 1,500 PAN cards since 2015. The police said that by creating these fake IDs, the accused facilitated their customers to apply for new passports and even renewals.
An investigation revealed that for Nepali citizens, the accused created 1,000 fake Voter IDs, 750 fake birth certificates, 1,500 fake Aadhaar cards in the last five months alone, using which they managed to obtain Aadhaar and cards needed for them to stay in India.
The Hyderabad police on Thursday arrested six persons in connection with creating these fake certificates. The accused were identified as Yelgam Raj Kumar, who runs an online services centre, his wife Rachamalla Vijayalaxmi, Md Mahboob (a private employee), Kurapati Pallavi (computer operator), Bandi Shankar (passport agent) and Giriraj Anil Kumar, (GHMC contract employee).
The police said that Raj Kumar had been running RS Online Service Center at Patny for the last 10 years. He used to create fake IDs like EPIC, Aadhaar and PAN using software.
Raj Kumar made changes to addresses mentioned in Aadhaar cards using fake voter ID (EPIC) cards. He also got rubber stamps of a gazetted officer surreptitiously made and using them, forging the officer’s signature, made changes to Aadhaar cards.
By using these fake documents, he facilitated his customers to apply for new passports or their renewal.
Raj Kumar also created fake birth certificates using which he made changes to name and date of birth in Aadhaar cards. The forgeries were so good that he managed to obtain caste certificates from the MRO office at Marredpally for his customers.
The police said that the accused Mahboob is contract worker in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and was authorised to make corrections in Aadhaar cards only at schools, but was in cahoots with Raj Kumar to make easy money.