The Rajasthan Police Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has busted a large-scale racket involving the employment of “fake ex-servicemen” as security guards in various government and public sector enterprises using forged documents and fabricated identity cards.

In a two-month-long operation code-named “Square Pyramid,” ATS sleuths investigated 31 offices and installations of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and have so far arrested 28 individuals found working there by posing as ex-servicemen, ATS Inspector General Vikas Kumar told the media here on Friday.

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According to the ATS, these fake ex-soldiers were recruited through private security agencies based on forged identity cards and falsified certificates claiming ex-servicemen status.

“This racket involves a nexus between un

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