Overview
- The arrests follow tip-offs to Noida police about a gang producing counterfeit academic documents from rented premises in sectors 1, 99 and 100.
- Officers seized 66 forged mark sheets, seven migration certificates, 22 resumes, counterfeit stamps, two laptops, two printers, seven mobile phones and two cars.
- Police allege the suspects charged between ₹80,000 and ₹2 lakh per forged document while using Google-sourced data to replicate official formats.
- The operation is said to have run for six years and catered to unemployed individuals, exam failures and those seeking to alter their age for eligibility.
- The suspects remain in custody after an FIR under sections 318(4), 336, 338 and 340 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was filed at Phase One Police Station as authorities probe institutional links.