Five held for issuing fake e-passes to people in Rohtas

PATNA: The Rohtas police arrested five persons involved in issuing fake e-passes to people after charging them money for inter-district and interstate movement amid the lockdown in the state.
Dehri-on-Sone SDO Sunil Kumar Singh received the information about the racket and sent his bodyguards, who returned with a forged e-pass issued against the SDO’s official vehicle registration number for travelling up to Gopalganj.
Singh on Sunday said the raid was conducted on three shops located at different locations under Dehri Town police station area on Saturday. The SDO said he received information that some of the shops involved in providing internet services were issuing e-passes by charging Rs500 to Rs1500 for one pass.
“They had scanned some original e-passes and photoshopped them on laptops and computers for printing them with required dates, time, places of movement, vehicle registration number and other details. They were printing it with a scanned signature of a former Rohtas district magistrate,” the SDO said.
Dehri Town police station SHO Chandrashekar Gupta said police arrested Himanshu Gupta, Abhishek Gupta, Vishnu Kumar Gupta, Vinod Kumar and Deepak Kumar from the three shops. He said one of the shops was located at Chowk near Dehri police station while two more were located beside each other on the Station road at Subhash Nagar.
“Laptops, computers, printers, forged passes and other items were seized from their shops,” he said, and added that they had issued at least 25 forged e-passes till now.