{
  "id": 8170651,
  "title": "Fake Passport Racket Deepens As Forged BMC Birth Certificates Used To Obtain Passports In Bhopal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/fake-passport-racket-deepens-as-forged-bmc-birth-certificates-used-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-18T03:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/bhopal/fake-passport-racket-deepens-as-forged-bmc-birth-certificates-used-to-obtain-passports-in-bhopal"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The probe into a suspected fake passport racket has uncovered another layer of forgery, with police finding that counterfeit birth certificates purportedly issued by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) were used to obtain passports. A police team visited BMC's Birth and Death Registration Branch on Thursday to verify five certificates submitted during the passport…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}