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Forgery Racket Busted as Odisha MBA Student Arrested for Using Fake Stamps
The New Indian Express Mangaluru
|April 03, 2025
A major forgery racket has been busted in Gujarat's Surat, wherein an Odisha-based MBA student used fake signatures and stamps of BJP MLA Kumar Kanani from the Varachha constituency for forging official records.
The scam operated for three-and-a-half months before the Kapodara police cracked down and arrested the 26-year-old suspect. Authorities are now on the hunt for the mastermind behind the forged documents.
Deepak Patnaik, the accused, forged the MLA's signatures and official seals to manipulate Aadhaar and PAN card details, uploading the falsified data onto government portals. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a spot near Saurashtra Circle and arrested Patnaik.
This story is from the April 03, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Mangaluru.
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