In February 2026, police in the Piran Kaliyar area of Haridwar district (near Roorkee), Uttarakhand carried out a law-enforcement operation during a verification drive to crack down on a forgery racket.
- A 24-year-old man named Shah Nawaz, originally from Bihar, was arrested for allegedly forging and distributing fake government documents.
- Police found he had been operating a fake Common Services Centre (CSC) out of a hotel in Piran Kaliyar, posing as an official of the human rights commission to gain trust.