India, April 5 -- The Mumbai crime branch has busted a fake bail bonds racket that arranged bogus documents and fake sureties to get arrested persons in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane released on bail. Five people have been arrested in connection with this.

Unit 6 of the crime branch on Thursday raided the office of one of the accused in Mankhurd area and seized bogus electricity bills, employee identity cards, salary slips and even ration-cards and bank statements from there.

The arrested are Amit Narayan Gije, 44, Bandu Vaman Korde, 44, Ahmed Qasim Shaikh, 44, Sanjeev Sohanlal Gupta, 34, and Umesh Arjun Kawle, 48. They accused were produced before a metropolitan magistrate court on Thursday and remanded in police custody till April 10....