Ludhiana: Agent arrested for stealing and selling sub-registrar office data

LUDHIANA: The police have arrested an agent for stealing data from the sub-registrar office (West) and selling it using forged stamps.
The FIR was lodged on Monday night against Avtar Kaushal of Jassiyan Road, Haibowal Kalan, under sections 380 (theft), 420 (cheating), 465 (punishment for forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.
Haibowal police station SHO sub-inspector Neeraj Chaudhary said, “We had received a complaint from the sub-registrar office (West) that the accused had stolen its data and was selling it further using forged stamps.”
“During investigation, it was found that the accused was working as an agent at the sub-registrar office (west). And he copied the hard disc of the computer and got access to the property documents. He forged the stamps to attest the documents. He was selling these documents illegally to people,” he added.
The police conducted a raid at his house and seized the forged stamps also.
On Tuesday, he was produced before the court that sent him in police custody for four days. “He will be interrogated to know for how long he has been doing it and if any other person is involved in it,” the cop said.