SANGRUR, June 19 -- The Sangrur Police have apprehended five people in connection with a forgery racket. The group is accused of fabricating documents to facilitate bail for drug traffickers.

The superintendent of police (SP), Dilpreet Singh providing details stated that the Gurdeep Singh Nambardar, Surjeet Singh, Teerath Singh, Manjinder Singh, and Jagsir Singh Seera have been arrested under sections 319(2), 318(4), 336(2), 336(3), 338, 340(2), and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. He added that the forged Aadhaar cards were recovered from their possession.

The police said that the arrests were made following a tip-off that Gurdeep Singh Nambardar and his associates were orchestrating the creation of fraudulent documents to secure ...