Hazaribagh police have arrested the kingpin of a fake paper makers’ gang from Banahappa village of Hazaribagh. DSP Barhi Manish Kumar gave this information to the newsmen and said that the Chauparan police has arrested Vivek Kumar Singh from Hazaribagh and has seized three laptops, two mobiles, two printers, four fake rubber stamps, pad, computer paper and other items used in making fake papers for the vehicles carrying goods from Jharkhand to other states.
The DSP said that on 6th March Chauparan police has detained three trucks at Chordaha inter-State composite tax check post. When the papers were thoroughly checked it was found that the papers were fake. Police than arrested a person named Bhola, who is a members of that gang and interrogated him as per information given by Bhola yesterday police arrested the kingpin Vivek Singh from Hazaribagh.
DSP Kumar informed that it is a inter-State gang which operates from its headquarter situated at Jamshedpur. The members of this gang use to provide fake tax papers to the vehicle owners to transport goods from one State to another. As per our investigation this gang has provided such papers to more than 400 vehicles within last two months causing a good loss to Government revenue.
On the other hand our sources from Chauparan said that after the arrest of Vivek the cabin operators, other staffs and guards posted at Chordaha check post are in panic because without their involvement such a large scale forgery is not possible. Now they are afraid that what will happen if during interrogation Vivek will say their names to the police.