The police on Tuesday busted a gang of four persons engaged in acting as guarantor for facilitating bails for the accused of different crime in courts.
While talking to media persons here on Tuesday, Additional SP Crime Shailendra Singh Chouhan said the investigation conducted so far revealed that the gang members used forged documents to facilitate bail. The crime branch Bhopal has recovered documents and tools used to prepare the documents.
Police were able to nab the accused after two Nepali nationals, accused in circulation of fake currency notes went missing after they were granted bail. During investigation, the documents used in the bail were checked and it was found that the loan books were forged.
The Nepali nationals Gaisul Alam (22) and Jowad Alam (23) were nabbed in the month of December 2014. The guarantors were nabbed by the police and when they were questioned in which the whole matter was unearthed.
During the investigation when the loan book was matched by the court with the photocopy provided in the court, the number was found same but in the original documents below signature of Patwari no date was mentioned and in photocopy date was mentioned as March 23, 2013 and when Meena Singh Meena was questioned he along with Basant Shrivastava and Ganesh Makwana and Khuman alias Virendra Solanki was operating a nexus to facilitate bail in turn of hefty amount.
The accused used to facilitate bail by introducing themselves as relatives. They have facilitated 11 bails till date.
Meena told police that he and his gang members used to contact the accused who do not have any means of getting bail and would demand a hefty amount for bailing out the accused and once the accused got bail they would start search for the next client.
Interestingly they used to rehearse before going to court and would make acquaintances with the family members of the client.
Chouhan further said, as per rules, if a loan book is used for bail, the court officials place a seal of the court on one of the pages inside the loan book. However, the gang members used to replace the sealed page with a fresh one and the same book was used later on.