LUCKNOW, Dec. 7 -- A joint team of the East Zone crime/surveillance unit and Ghazipur police arrested two men allegedly running a fake stamp-paper racket from a shop in Keshav Complex, Indira Nagar, officials said here on Sunday.

"The accused, identified as Seetanath Rath, 48, and Deepak Singh, 52, were caught after police received a tip-off that forged manual and e-stamp papers were being manufactured and sold from the premises," said ACP Ghazipur Anindya Vikram Singh. He added, "The team raided the ground-floor shop, where Rath was reportedly seen trying to hurriedly hide stamp papers and documents before being detained."

During the search, police recovered a large cache of forged documents and equipment, including manual stamp papers...