Two cops arrested in Moga passport scam

The Faridkot police has booked four persons,including two policemen,for making a fake passport to help the main accused in the Moga passport scam,Jaswinder Singh,flee the country.

While policemen Gurmeet Singh and Gurmukh Singh have also been arrested,Jaswinder Singh and Manjit Singh a travel agent have been booked under Sections 420,465,467,218 of the IPC and the Anti-Corruption Act.

The policemen were produced before the court on Saturday.

According to sources,Jaswinder a resident of Faridkot and former employee of the Punjab Police had approached Faridkot security branch in-charge Gurmukh Singh to help him get a fake passport. Gurmukh,along with Sub-Inspector Gurmeet Singh,used the identity and address of Gurdeep Singh a Malke village resident who had died to make the passport.

The passport was issued to Jaswinder,who sent it to the American Embassy in New Delhi while applying for visa. It is here that his true identity and the fact that he was using a fake passport was exposed. The Embassy is learnt to have informed the Faridkot police,which arrested the two policemen.

Faridkot SSP Gurmeet Singh Chauhan said: The accused used identity of dead people to make fake passports. The deal was stuck for Rs 20,000.

The passport scam rocked the Moga in July 2008,when it was found that more than 200 fake passports had been issued in connivance with the officials of the Punjab Police,post office and the local passport office.

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