New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- Ghaziabad Police have dismantled an organised syndicate that fraudulently secured genuine passports using counterfeit documents, bypassing official checks through a network of agents, a postal employee and police personnel.
A senior police official said that five accused were arrested in connection with the scam.
The arrested include Delhi-based agents Vivek Gandhi (35) and Prakash Subba (61), postman Arun Kumar (32) from Meerut, and a mother-son duo, Satwant Kaur (61) and Amandeep Singh (19), from West Delhi. Additionally, constable Deepak Kumar has been suspended for allegedly accepting bribes to circumvent police verification.
The operation came to light on December 12 when the Delhi passport office flagged 24 sus...