Mumbai, Oct 26 (PTI) The Crime Branch of Mumbai police Friday busted a racket which allegedly helped accused persons secure bail by providing fake documents for money.

Unit-1 of the Crime Branch laid a trap outside the Sessions Court and arrested eight men, a police official said.

The gang facilitated bail by providing forged documents, said Dilip Sawant, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detection).

It operated in the sessions court and metropolitan magistrate courts in Mumbai and neighbouring Thane and Navi Mumbai, he said.

Normally, the accused is asked to provide a police verification report and a surety (who guarantees good conduct on the accused's part upon release) for bail.

The gang prepared bogus police reports using fake stamps and forging signatures of the concerned police officials, Sawant said.

They also provided bogus documents for the surety including salary slips and employer identity cards.

The arrested men were identified as Shakir Hussain Khan (35), Shafique Qureshi (34), Faiyaz Khan (34), Imran Salmani (27), Mohammed Parvez Shaikh (50), Riyaz Pathan (35), Muzaffar Kazi (38) and Yusuf Khan (31).

All are residents of Govandi and Mankhurd in eastern suburbs and none of them has studied beyond Class 5, the official said.

The gang charged between Rs 25,000 to Rs 40,000 for providing bogus documents, Sawant said, adding that police were probing if some more persons were involved in the racket.

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