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Six booked for submitting bogus documents to procure voter IDs

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In a major crackdown to curb bogus voting registration, officials from Vasai tehsil along with sleuths of Manickpur police station, swooped down on a tenement of a Navghar resident and seized bogus documents used to procure voter identification cards.

Six persons have been booked in the case so far, but arrests are yet to be made. Jagdish Gupta,41, and Nirmaladevi Gupta, 37, both residents of Navghar in Vasai (W) were booked along with four other persons after Namdev Dhum, talathi from Vasai tehsil, found bogus documents attached to their forms to procure voter ID cards for 133 constituency.

"I received 1,600 applications from which 222 were rejected sighting irrelevant documents in which minor's too had filled the forms and I came across six forms which were bogus," said Dhum.

"We immediately cross checked the information and found that they were forged and informed the police, who reached their residence and seized ration cards and registration documents," he added.

"We have booked all the accused under sections 199 (false statements made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence), 200 (using as true such declaration knowing it to be false), 465 (punishment for forgery), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code and under section 31 of the Representation of People Act, 1950. They will be produced them before the Vasai court," said KS Hegaje, senior inspector, Manickpur police station.

"We suspect that they are involved in procuring bogus documents to gather voting ID. Investigations are on. We will soon arrest all the accused and will crackdown on the person involved in giving them forged government documents," said Hegaje.

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