Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)

Bengaluru, Oct 4: A man, private bank document collecting executive, was arrested for making duplicate seals of government and documents for people to avail bank loans.

The arrested person is Girish H N (28), a native of Kunigal, presently residing at Srighandhakaval near Bangalore University in the city here.

It is known that Girish is doing this illegal act since the past three years but was unearthed when a revenue officer from RR Nagar took a close look at the documents he had received from a bank for verification and found that they are forged. The Annapoorneshwari Nagar police registered a case based on the complaint given by the revenue office and cornered Girish.

Girish

Police, to their utter dismay, found more than 290 rubber stamps of various government departments and a rubber stamp making machine, the cost of which is estimated to be Rs 7.7 lac.

As per the information given by Ravi D Chennannavar, DCP west, Girish was aspiring to become an IAS officer and got attracted to this easy money making business to make money for the coaching classes of IAS.

Police also said that Girsh is a graduate in commerce from Tumkur and had come to the capital city in the year 2011 seeking employment. He wrote many competitive exams but could not get through in any of them. Ultimately he joined a private bank as a document collection executive.

Three years ago, Girish came into contact with a person who desperately wanted a tax receipt to apply for a bank loan. In order to help the person, Girish sought the help of his friend Irfan Khan, who in turn guided him to approach a certain person called Bhaskar from Laggere, who was doing the business of creating forged documents.

Girish got the duplicate tax receipt from Bhaskar and received a handsome amount as commission from the person who wanted to apply for a loan. This made Girish to take this easy money-making profession as a side business and he started issuing forged documents whoever approached him for the same.

Girish bought a used machine to make rubber stamps of BBMP, revenue and other government departments. He forged the signatures of the government officials and also issued fake documents to the banks as per the information given by the police.

Now Girish is under the custody of Peenya police.