INDORE: Busting a racket involved in preparing forged Aadhar cards, crime branch police on Monday arrested two persons and recovered large quantity of dummy cards and equipment used to print them.

The crime branch police had received a tip-off that a photocopy shop operator in Rau area was involved in preparing the fake Aadhar cards following which a policeman was sent posing as customer.

After initial denial, the accused agreed to prepare the card for Rs700, SP Amrendra Singh said adding he got the card prepared in 30 minutes.

The police nabbed the accused, who was later identified as Aman alias Golu Chourasia. He confessed having created large number of such cards to customers. “He claimed that his activities started when one Rakesh Bhargav of Dewas had approached him in 2014 for such a card and he had prepared it in first attempt,” Singh said.

Aman claimed that he earned Rs 100-200 per day at the shop, which he found was not enough to survive. He soon joined hands with Rakesh, who sent him customers and charged a commission.

Crime branch sleuths caught Rakesh, who claimed that he had been sending girls and boys to Aman for the fake cards and charging Rs 300 from them.

Most of his customers were young people who wanted the cards for renting houses and getting married on courts, the SP said adding he had got in touch with some girls who got married using the fake Aadhar cards and fled homes soon after the ceremonies with cash and ornaments.

The booty was divided among the accused. The victims of such crimes attempted to trace the addresses given in the Aadhar cards and came to dead ends.

The police have arrested both Aman and Rakesh and were interrogating them. They expect to get clues about more such crimes.

