Four use fake identity cards to ‘raise funds for relief work’, held

GURUGRAM: Four youths have been arrested for allegedly using a fake ID of Delhi University student council president Ankiv Baisoya and collecting money from residential areas in the city on the pretext of raising funds for refugee relief in Jammu and Kashmir.

The accused — Sahrukh Khan (32), Aamir Ahmad (24) and Jahur Ahmad Bhatt (22) who are from Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir — and Abdul Hamid Bhatt (25), a resident of J&K’s Bofvara, were produced in a city court on Thursday and were sent to five-day police remand.

According to sources, police suspect that the group might be helping to fund terror activities, and are verifying the same. Police did not confirm any information about the youths but sources said three of them were students of a college in Kashmir. They added that all four had been staying in Delhi for the past several months and were visiting Gurugram daily for collecting donations.

Around 11am on Wednesday, the youths were making door-to-door collections in Sector 4, when Atul K Sehgal, a resident, grew suspicious and tipped off police. Police reached the spot and took all four into custody for questioning. The complainant said that the students showed the DU president’s ID but looked like Kashmiris and that made him suspicious. According to police, the group has not revealed the real purpose for collecting money, so far, which has raised suspicion of terror links.

“The accused confessed that they obtained the fake ID cards to collect money. They were also carrying a letterhead with a fake signature of DU student council president Ankiv Baisoya,” said the investigating officer.

An FIR has been registered under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forging document), 468 (forgery), 471 (using forged document as genuine), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC at the Sector 9A police station. “After verifying facts, action will be taken as per the law,” said ASI Subhash Bokan, spokesperson for Gurugram police.