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The Vital police, connected December 22, arrested Pradeep, a constable, connected the complaint of forging passport verification documents to assistance a West Bengal autochthonal to get a passport.
According to Dakshina Kannada District Police, Shakti Das, lad of Suguna Das, presently residing successful Vitla Kasaba, had applied for a passport. His exertion had travel for constabulary verification successful February 2025 to Vital Police Station. Kasaba bushed constable Sabu Mirji noticed that the code impervious submitted by the applicant did not tally with the spot of residence. Accordingly, the bushed constable did not urge the application.
When Sabu Mirji, who is besides the adjunct presumption writer, was updating the presumption registry connected December 17, helium recovered that Shakti Das had again applied for a passport, and the exertion was assigned to his metallic number. Upon calling the mobile fig mentioned successful the caller application, the telephone was answered by K. Pradeep, a nonmigratory of Apperipade successful Vitla.
K. Pradeep told Sabu Mirji that constable Pradeep had recommended the passport exertion of Shakti Das.
When confronted, constable Pradeep reportedly admitted to forging the signature of Sabu Mirji and getting a elder officer’s proposal to contented the constabulary clearance certificate. He had destroyed the verification documents to conceal the forgery.
Based connected a ailment by Sabu Mirji, constabulary registered cases against Pradeep and Shakti Das nether provisions of Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita for the offences of creating mendacious documents for cheating, forging a nationalist register, dishonest misuse of spot entrusted with someone, and causing disappearance of evidence.
Pradeep was produced earlier the jurisdictional magistrate who remanded him to judicial custody. Police are searching for Shakti Das.
