The crime wing of the Ludhiana police has busted a gang involved in making Aadhaar cards on the basis of fake residential proofs.
The gang was using stamps of MLAs and other officials to get the Aadhaar cards issued. Three members of the gang had been arrested, the police said.
The accused have been identified as Raj Kumar, a 48-year-old resident of Mohalla New Subash Nagar, Tibba; 42-year-old Vinod Kumar Bhalla from Tilak Nagar, Rahon Road; and Raj Kumar Sunny (35) of Bajra Colony.
Another accused in the case, Kuldeep Kumar, is yet to be arrested, the police added.
The police have recovered three laptops, fingerprint scanner, an eye scanner, two printers, 16 Aadhaar cards, five PAN cards, five vote ID cards, nine finger prints, 36 certificates of Aadhaar enrolment form, and one fake stamp from the accused.
DCP (Crime) Simratpal Singh Dhindsa, Additional DCP (Crime) Rupinder Kaur Bhatti and ACP (Crime) Mandeep Singh addressed a joint press conference in this regard.
As per the police, the gang had made more than 500 Aadhaar cards of persons who had no residential proof.
