After the arrest of two persons, including a 29-year-old private bus conductor Babu Ram, for allegedly selling forged fake driving licences and birth certificates, role of transport authorities’ officials has come under the scanner of the Crime Branch of Delhi Police.
Investigators have recovered 21 fake driving licences, 31 fake stamps of several State Transport authorities, holographic stickers and scanner-printer from their possession.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said that another associate of Babu Ram has been identified as Ram Singh (37). “Babu was supplying fake driving licence and birth certificates for the last one-and-a-half year with his associates -- Ram Singh, Dheerdhwaj, Akram Bhodha, Ashok and Dharamveer. He used to purchase blank driving licence card from Dheerdhwaj and get it prepared through Ram Singh and Akram,” he added.
After their arrest, investigators are probing the role of insider officials of transport authorities of Ambala, Gurgaon, Agra and Kanpur as they had recovered fake rubber stamps of these transport authorities from their possession. “On June 14, police received a tip-off that Babu Ram and his accomplice are selling fake driving licences of different States & Transport authorities would come at T-Point, Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. Acting on the information, a team was formed under the supervision of Inspector Ashok Kumar and sub-inspector Ashok Kumar,” he added.
Yadav said that they sent a decoy customer to Babu Ram who came in his Ecco car. They struck the deal of making a fake driving licence for Rs 2,000 and after taking his documents, he came after an hour. He gave him his fake driving licence and then police apprehended him. On his instances, another accused Ram Singh was arrested from Siraspur and 12 fake driving licences and several blank driving licence cards.