10 from Nepal arrested in fake Aadhaar card racket

The crime branch unit 11 has arrested 10 Nepalese nationals in connection with the fake Aadhaar card racket it busted last week. according to the police, all the Nepalese nationals have procured Aadhaar cards from the two arrested accused. Last week the crime branch arrested two Vinod Chavan, 24, and Umesh Chaudhary, 31 for allegedly issuing Aadhaar cards to foreign nationals on forged documents. An Aadhaar card centre has been set-up in a nationalised bank at Borivali where Chavhan was an operator while Chaudhary is an agent.

As per the procedure, the bank officials have been tasked to verify applicants' documents before sending them to Chavhan who then perform the remaining formalities of taking the applicant's fingerprint scans, iris scan, filing their form, and uploading their documents.

"The investigation revealed that Chavhan used to do everything on his own without the knowledge of the bank officials. Since the Nepalese nationals don't have any valid documents here, he used to create forged documents in their names in order to issued Aadhaar cards in their name," said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Akbar Pathan.