Overview
- Ajaykumar Ghanshyam Chaudhary and Arvind Shrikant Upadhyay were picked up in Delhi by the Gandhinagar-based CID-Crime Cyber Centre of Excellence and brought to Gujarat.
- Investigators report recovering about 12,000 unauthorised permits along with roughly 8,650 booking confirmation emails and more than 10,000 related PDFs.
- The operation targeted permits for major reserves including Gir, Ranthambore, Tadoba, Jim Corbett, Kaziranga and Bandhavgarh, according to police.
- Officials say the accused bulk-booked slots using fake identities, created an artificial shortage, and resold confirmations at inflated rates through a site that mimicked government portals and via travel agents.
- The case stems from an October 10 FIR filed by the Sasan Gir DCF under Section 112 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, with three earlier arrests already made as the multi-state probe continues.