BMC officials had alerted seniors on fake voter cards
29 12 2007MUMBAI: The voter identity card scam came to light when a DNA scribe was issued a fake I-card on December 5 at Shastri Nagar Municipal School in Dharavi. Police investigation into the case has, however, proved that some BMC officials had sensed sinister dealings by employees of Vakrangi Software Limited—the firm making the I-cards—much earlier. They had even alerted their superiors, but no action was taken.
Raghunath Jathar, a BMC official posted at the school, caught a Vakrangi employee trying to make a fake voter I-card by pasting a tampered hologram on it. The employee even showed Jathar how to tamper with the hologram using water. Jathar told the cops that he had conveyed the incident to his superiors. Jathar also noticed another Vakrangi employee, Vikrant Magare, often carrying a personal pen drive into the room where the cards were being made. He handed over the pen drive to his superior, Sunand Gaggar, a day after DNA published the story on December 6. Police seized the pen drive and found it was formatted, but contained no data.
For completer story, please log into : http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1141848
