Kerala police bust fake Aadhar card centre in Kerala’s Perumbavoor
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Kochi: Officials stated that the Kerala Police raided a fake Aadhaar card manufacturing factory in Perumbavoor near here on Monday and arrested an Assam native in connection with the matter.
According to police, a special investigative team led by Perumbavoor ASP Sakthi Singh Arya apprehended Harijul Islam (26), a native of Nagaon in Assam.
He was reportedly engaged in producing forged documents for migrant workers.
The illegal operation was exposed during an inspection carried out under ‘Operation Clean Perumbavoor’, police added, PTI reported.
The unit was functioning inside a mobile phone shop, located on the ground floor of a shopping complex near the private bus stand in Perumbavoor.
During the raid, police seized several fake Aadhaar cards, laptops, printers, mobile phones, and cash amounting to approximately Rs 50,000, police said.
The investigation has been intensified, and further probes are underway.
The raid was conducted based on a tip-off received by Ernakulam Rural District Police Chief Dr Vaibhav Saxena, police added.
