Fake DL racket busted, terror angle to be probed

Nagpur: Nagpur rural police and Regional Transport Office (rural) claimed to have busted a racket of fake driving licence by arresting one Nawab Jamir Baig, a resident of Mouda, on Monday. The joint team of police and RTO also seized a computer, printer, photo paper, eight fake driving licences, and material being used to print licences and other materials worth Rs 65,040.
Assistant motor vehicle inspector Amit Karad said the raid was carried out after a citizen tipped off the Mouda police that Baig, who runs a photo studio in the city, used to prepare fake driving licence. Subsequently, the police along with a team of rural RTO laid a trap and on Monday raided Baig’s studio.
“During a search of the premises, we recovered substantial evidence of Baig being involved in making fake driving licences,” he said.
Sources said that the police would also investigate whether the fake licences prepared by Baig were being used to provide fake identity to anti-social elements in terror activities in the country.
The Maharashtra police had found a similar fake driving licence from the German bakery bomb blast accused in Pune in 2010.
Meanwhile, the Kalamna police have made no headway into the bogus four-wheeler registration certificates complaint filed by deputy RTO Vinod Jadhav. In the month of March, Jadhav had filed a complaint after his east Nagpur office had recovered seven fake four-wheeler registration certificates. “There is no progress into the case,” said Jadhav.