The Punjab Police’s cybercrime division recently arrested the prime accused of running a fake portal impersonating the official website of the state government’s mining department to generate counterfeit receipts and forms, facilitating the movement of vehicles involved in illegal mining.
The accused, identified as Gaurav Kumar of Kharar in SAS Nagar, allegedly created a replica of the original official website of the mining department ‘minesgeologypunjab.gov.in’, impersonating it as ‘minesgeologypunjab.in’. The fake website remained operational from November to January, said the police.