Police seized Aadhaar card enrolment forms and Rs 1,14,550

AHMEDABAD: Zone-5 squad of the city police on Saturday arrested two brothers — Sandeep Kathiriya (32) and his brother Jignesh (36) — from Bapunagar for making fake Aadhaar cards, PAN cards and election cards. They were arrested from a photocopy shop near New Cotton Mill Crossroads.

Zone-5 DCP Ravi Teja said police recovered 15 fake voter ID cards, 30 original ones, 15 fake PAN cards and 10 fake Aadhaar cards from the accused. “The accused used to charge anything between Rs 800 to Rs 1,000 for making a fake card,” he added.

Police said Jignesh had stolen a laptop, a camera, a fingerprint device and an Iris machine when working as an operator with the Aadhaar card section at the collector’s office. “They used to open Aadhaar card and smart voter ID card and PAN card section in the software and used to change name, address and other details in the card and take out a printout of the fake card,” said a senior police official.

Police seized Aadhaar card enrolment forms and Rs 1,14,550 from the shop. “We have handed over the accused to Amraiwadi police for further investigation,” added Teja.

