Talaiya police busted a racket of facilitating fake documents for appearing in Army recruitment and nabbed seven Uttar Pradesh based youths with fake documents from a hotel on Wednesday, middle man went missing and would be nabbed soon, said police.
The youths were nabbed during special search of hotels and lodges in the wake of upcoming Muslim congregation- Aalmi Tablighi Ijtema and when hotel Samrat was checked the youths were found staying suspiciously and when they were questioned they failed to provide satisfactory answers.
The youths arrived in the city on Wednesday and were staying by providing fake address proof.
Nabbed accused were identified as Santosh lodhi, Dileep Kumar Verma, Rahul Sharma, Sumit Sonavania ( Bulandsahar, UP)Sachin Dehram, Deepak Gundiya, , Abhay Sharma( Hapur, UP) and middle man Kiran Pal alias ( Bulandsahar, UP).
The accused were produced in the court on Thursday and were sent under police custody of five days.
All the arrangements were made by middle man who is yet to be traced and nabbed.
Police said that none of the identity proof recovered from the nabbed youths were found authentic. For appearing in the examination candidate has to be a resident of the state and fake ration card, voter identity card, adahar card which were meant to establish identity of the nabbed youths as residents of the state were recovered from possession.
The police have registered a case under Section 420, 467, 465, 471 and 120 B of the IPC and further investigation has been started. During the investigation police would search for the nexus which worked to facilitate the fake documents to candidates appearing in examinations in the State.