AGRA: A first-year undergraduate student of business administration has been arrested with 160 fake passports, mostly of Arab countries, by the Mathura police on Monday. Surprised cops said he seemed to be conducting a racket "on a remarkably vast scale from his room in a paying guest accommodation".Vikas Kumar, a native of Gopalganj in Bihar, was enrolled in a business administration course in a private college here. According to Mathura SSP Rakesh Singh, police arrested him from his PG room after the landlord got suspicious and alerted cops.“Kumar was allotted a college hostel room, but the college administration threw him out of the hostel after finding his activities suspicious. He shifted from there and took up a PG accommodation but there too the owners found his behaviour very strange as he used to change the lock of his room every alternate day. He never contacted or talked to anyone and preferred stay inside his room,” added the SSP.After the owner of the house contacted the police, a team raided his room and found 160-odd passports both from India and Arab countries. Police have claimed the passports are fake though investigations are on. They have also recovered some job certificates and interim visa applications. A laptop, several mobile phones and SIM cards were found in Kumar’s possession. Most of the passports were for people in the lookout of jobs in Arab countries, many of them for Iraq and Dubai.“Kumar earlier worked with a travel agency in New Delhi. We suspect that he runs a fake job racket. He used to monitor job vacancies in Arab countries, get fake passports made of Indian people, get them fake job experience certificates along with visa and other documents. He earned money from both companies and applicants in this manner,” Singh said.Kumar was sent to jail on Monday, with both the police and IB keen to get to the bottom of the matter. “Though it primarily seems to be a fake job racket, we have to delve deeper and pursue other angles as it is not possible to run such a huge business all alone. He will be taken into custody for further interrogation,” the SSP added.