Greater Noida: The Gautam Buddh Nagar police busted a criminal gang who forged documents to be produced in the courts to secure bail for the accused. The police also arrested six persons from the Surajpur court area on Wednesday.
"Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a park outside the court premises and arrested all the six persons while they were preparing fake documents to be presented before the court.
"The gang was involved in producing fake documents in the court to bail out accused and criminals from jail," said Ajay Pal Sharma, Superintendent of Police, Gautam Buddh Nagar.
Kamal of Baghpat district, Shekhar, Lokendra, Dayanand, Devendra, Raju, all natives of Ghaziabad and nearby districts were arrested from the Surajpur court while they had come to be fake witnesses in a case after producing fake documents for bail.
Police said Kamal, who was working as an agent in a lower court for many advocates, was the mastermind behind the racket. He was well-versed with the bail procedures.
Cops also recovered fake rubber stamps of government and police departments, solvency certificates, Aadhaar cards, bank passbooks, ration cards, PAN cards, driving licences, voter ID cards and visiting cards of many lawyers from them.
The police revealed that several advocates are suspected to be hand-in-glove with the arrested accused as they had represented the accused in criminal cases and by submitting forged documents, they got them out on bail.
"Upon interrogation, the arrested revealed that a few advocates from Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad courts are also involved in the forgery. We have launched a probe into the case and will initiate action against those found guilty," said Amit Kishor Shrivastava, circle officer-I, Greater Noida.
The police said that so far the gang has submitted fake documents in the court number 12, 13, 15 and ACJM court number 7 and 9 in Gautam Buddh Nagar.