Seven persons involved in producing and circulating fake stamps were sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment on Monday. The accused were nabbed in the year 2011 from Indore while selling fake stamp papers and revenue stamps.
On April 4, 2011 five accused were persons were nabbed from Radio colony in Indore and when they were searched fake stamp and fake revenue stamp tickets were found by STF.
The gang members were nabbed while they were dealing in fake stamp and fake revenue stamp tickets.
A case under section 255, 258, 259, 240, 467, 468, 471 and 120- B and 34 of the IPC was registered at STF police station Bhopal on April 10, 2011.
The five nabbed accused were identified as Mohammad Naseem of Allahabad of Uttar Pradesh, Akhlaq lateef alias Pappu of Jaunpur of Uttar Pradesh, Abdul lateef of Indore of Madhya Pradesh, Azam Ali of Jaunpur of Uttar Pradesh and Phool Chandra of Jaunpur of Uttar Pradesh.
During the investigation it was found that the Patna based Arjun and Shekhar Pridarshan were involved in producing the fake stamps and computer and printer used in producing the fake stamps were recovered from their possession and were later nabbed by the STF in the investigation.
The seven were sentenced to 7 years of rigorous imprisonment and penalty of Rs 5000 was imposed on the accused by Additional Session Court Indore RS Sharma.
After the gang was nabbed interstate gang involved in the nexus of producing and circulating of fake stamp and fake revenue tickets surfaced.