Delhi Police constable arrested for distributing fake PCCs

NEW DELHI: (Mar 14) A Delhi Police constable posted in the Shaheen Bagh police station was arrested over alleged involvement in a racket preparing fake Police Clearance Certificates (PCCs), an official said on Friday.

The racket came to light during a probe into a narcotics trafficking case in southeast Delhi, he said.

According to police, the accused constable, identified as Arun, a 2017-batch personnel originally from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, had allegedly been generating forged PCCs with the help of his associate Tushar, a resident of Pilkhuwa in Uttar Pradesh, who had earlier worked as a police "mitra" with several police stations.