FAKE DRIVING LICENCE RACKET BUSTED IN TARN TARAN, 3 HELD

TARN TARAN : A racket allegedly involved in making fake driving licences was busted by the Tarn Taran police during the questioning of one of the alleged shooters of Shaurya Chakra awardee Balwinder Singh Sandhu.

Three members of the gang were arrested, the police said on Thursday.

Those arrested were identified as Gurbhej Singh, alias Bheja and Gurjashandeep Singh of Muglani and Bugge villages in Tarn Taran district, and Kuldeep Singh, alias Raju of Kot Mitt Singh area in Amritsar.

The police recovered fake stamps of several government officials, including those of district transport officers, from the accused. Officials said the accused operated from the Khadoor Sahib court complex and made fake driving licences for those planning to go abroad.

A case under Sections 465-68 (forgery), 471 (using as genuine a forge copy) of the Indian Penal Code was registered against the three at the Goindwal Sahib police station.

Police officials said they stumbled upon the racket while questioning Inderjit Singh, a resident of Tarn Taran’s Rashiana village, who was arrested at the Mumbai airport on January 28 in connection with the killing of Sandhu, who was gunned down by masked assailants outside his house in Tarn Taran’s Bhikhiwind town on October 16 last year. The police have claimed that it was Inderjit and Gurjit Singh, alias Bha of Gurdaspur, who shot Sandhu dead. The gang also made two fake driving licences of Inderjit, they said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had taken over the Sandhu killing case on January 27. On Thursday, a court extended Inderjit’s police remand.