Mumbai: 7 arrested for providing fake documents to criminals for securing bail

The Mahatma Phule Chowk police have unearthed a racket of people who produced fake documents to furnish bail for the undertrials in jail for serious offencesThe cops have arrested 7 accused in which 3 are women in connection with the racketAll the women arrested in the offence are homemakers and they were roped in by racketeers for extra money for the domestic expensesThe accused have submitted bogus documents in Ulhasnagar Kalyan Nashik and Panvel courtsThe Mahatma Phule Chowk police received information that few people produced bogus documents to get bail for the accused which are lodged in the jail and are unable to come out due to authentic surety On August 23 Assistant Police Inspector Devidas Dhole with the help of his Crime Detection team rushed to Kalyan Court and laid the trap with the help of informersAlso read FIR against firm for submitting fake documents to get COVID19 centre contractsWhen the police reached the court informers pointed out to three women and a man in the court premises holding bags in their hand Cops immediately circled them reveal their identity A man identified himself as Siddharth Nagwekar 29 and other women as Jasmeet Kaur alias Dimple Kartar Singh Gill 26 Mamata Hazra 28 and Geetika Udasi 24 all are residents of UlhasnagarldquoWhen we asked the detainees a reason to visit the court they gave us vague answers After questioning they told us that they submit their identity card Ration card as surety to the accused in return of money for their bailrdquo told an officerCops took the documents they were having and found that Siddharth Nagwekar had documents such as Ration card Aadhaar card with name Vidya Sharma resident of Aatgaon Sandeep Mishra resident of Kamba Kalyan All women too had government IDs with different names and addressesWhen asked about who forged these documents detainees told cops that they had procured it from persons named Vishal and Sandeep Gohar and got Rs 2000 each for attending court with the documentsldquoAccording to the probe the accused started this racket almost a year ago when no relatives came to court as surety for the accused during the pandemic Cops say the accused have furnished such bogus documents in several courts such as Kalyan Kalyan Railway Chopda Ulhasnagar Panvel and Palghar through lawyers Though the women received just Rs 2000 per accused the kingpin of the racket used to make Rs 25000 to Rs 30000 per accusedrdquo told another police officerldquoWe have arrested 7 accused till now and have booked them under IPC section 420 cheating 465 forgery 468 forgery for the purpose of cheating 471 using forged documents as genuine and 34 common intention The accused used to stand in court as surety to the undertrials booked under serious offences to help them in getting bail We are still getting details of the accused for which they have stood as surety and secured bail for themrdquo told AB Honmane Senior Inspector of Mahatma Phule Chowk Police station