India, July 1 -- The Powai police on Monday booked seven employees of the Currency Note Press (CNP) in Nashik, for cheating and forgery after investigations revealed that they had used dummy candidates during the entrance examination in Mumbai in 2022.

According to the FIR the seven accused, Raviranjan Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Shishupal Kumar, Ayush Raj, Rajib Singh, Sandip Kumar, and Ashuthosh Kumar, all from Nalanda, Bihar, had used people to impersonate them as candidates in the exam to fill the 2023-2024 vacant posts.

The accused were recruited on the basis of forged educational documents and were working for the press when officials received a tip-off regarding their deceit. Officials at the printing press then conducted an internal v...