Thomas (Special correspondent)
The SIT team probing into criminal cases have stumbled on a racket involved in creating pre-dated land and property documents using fake stamp papers and fake seals operating in the city.
The team received a credible information that still the fake stamp papers are being supplied in market the SIT team taking the matter seriously approached court for search warrant.
After getting the court’s permission on Friday,the East Division cops conducted raids in the wee hours of Saturday and have picked up five suspects who are in custody and being questioned.
Senior officer told reporters,The HAL and the Halasurugate police were recently investigating on an unnatural death case and a murder case where they stumbled on this racket involved fake stamp papers and fake seals,while they were verifying documents pertaining to the crime.
Meanwhile, the city police also received directions from the High Court stating a lot of forgery cases have been on the rise off late that had come to the court and the police need to take a look at it.
Based on this direction,Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Division,Dr SD Sharanappa formed a Special Investigating Team (SIT) at the HAL police station who started collecting information about a gang involved in fake stamp papers and seals and managed to get credible information about them operating in the city.
Based on this information,and after taking the court’s permission,the SIT teams in the wee hours of Saturday,conducted raids at four places in Byatarayanapura and Vivek Nagar and picked up five suspects for questioning.
During the searches, the SIT teams seized numerous fake stamp papers,seals and other related materials and a detailed mahajar is being conducted and detailed investigation is underway he added.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,Addl CP East,S Murugan,has appreciated DCP East,Dr SD Sharanappa and his special investigation team who has successfully nabbed five suspects who were involved in supplying fake stamp papers and seal and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.
