Sangrur, July 1 -- The Sangrur police have arrested eight individuals involved in securing approximately 40 bails for accused persons across various courts in Patiala, Dhuri, Sangrur, Khanna, and Fatehgarh Sahib using fake documents. One individual remains at large, superintendent of police Dilpreet Singh said on Monday.

The SP said that the police received a tip-off on June 24 regarding Rajveer Singh, Hardeep Singh, and Sukhwinder Singh alias Billa colluding with lawyers and munshis to secure bails for large sums of money using fake documents.

"Rajveer Singh and Hardeep Singh were arrested the same day under charges 318(4) (cheating), 338 (forgery), 336(3) (committing forgery), 340(2) (forgery of valuable security), 319(2) (cheating by...