(a) whether the Government has noticed any cases of circulation
of counterfeit postal stamps and circulation/encashment of fake
Postal Orders, National Saving Certificates, Kisan Vikas Patras,
etc.so far ; and
(b) if so, the details thereof and the steps taken to prevent
the same in future?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (DR. SHAKEEL AHMAD)
(a) Some cases of circulation of counterfeit postal stamps in
various parts of the country have come to the notice of the
Department since 1999. No case of fake Postal Orders, National
Savings Certificates, Kisan Vikas Patras and other Small Savings
instruments has come to notice.
(b) Till date counterfeit stamps valued at more than Rs.
6,00,00,000/- (Rupees six crores only) have been
detected/seized. Reported instances of fake stamps are given in
the Annexure.
The following steps have been taken by the Department to
prevent such cases in future:
(i) Instructions have been issued to all the Heads of
Postal Circles for conducting surprise checks/visits
for checking the Stamp Vendors/Post Office Treasuries,
Circle Stamp Depots (CSDs).
(ii) Instructions to Heads of Circles for activating
Circle/Regional Checking Squads and checking of
Licensed Stamp Vendors/Licensed Postal
Agents/Panchayat Sanchar Sewa Kendras have been
issued.
(iii) Staff have been made aware of the features of
genuine stamps like quality of paper and colour of
print, perforation, watermark and quality and colour
of gumming so that they can identify and detect fake
stamps from the genuine ones.
(iv) Heads of Circles have been instructed to give
publicity requesting the public to purchase stamps
only from Post Offices or authorized agents and not
from any other source.
(v) Field units have been instructed to book the articles
through Multi Purpose Counter Machines (MPCMs),
wherever such machines are available, in order to
reduce the need to use stamps.
(vi) Use of franking machines by institutional customers is
being encouraged.
(vii) Since February, 2004, technical data of
commemorative stamps is also not published.
REPORTED CASES OF DETECTION OF SUSPECTED FAKE POSTAL STAMPS BY
CIRCLE
Name of Place Date of Details of fake stamps Circle detecti detected/seized on Denominat No. Value Total ion Value
1. Assam Naharbar April, 5/- 13 65 73 i HO 1999 1/- 8 8
2. Delhi NDRS TMO Feb., 10/- 3 30 1999 180 Janakpur Jan., 10/- 15 150 i & DES 2000 Col.PO
3. West Kolkata Dec., 50/- 15 750 750 Bengal GPO 1999
4. Rajasthan Jaipur Jan., 2/- 894 1788 5599 1999 1/- 381 3811 1
5. Bihar Ashok March, 5/- 7 35 Nagar 1999 10/- 2 20
(Ranchi)
1215 Barh Sept., 2/- 41 82
(Nalanda 1999 ) Jamalpur Oct.199 2/- 12 24 9 Patna Mar.199 5/- 198 990 9 5/- 12 60 Bankipor March, 2/- 2 4 e HO 1999 6. Maharasht Aurangab Jun.199 20/- 2 40 ra ad 9 3310980 0 Thane Nov., 1,2,3,5,1 - 3304853
(Mumbai) 1999 0,20,50 & 0 1/- Rev. Shivaji Jan., 10/- 612 61230 Ngr. HO, 2003 3 Pune City HO
7 U.P. Noida & May, 1,2,3,5,1 32100 Meerut 2000 0/-
1364886 9 Tetri July, 5/- 86 430 Bazar 2000 Basti Meerut May,200 10/- 50 500 0 Ghaziaba July,20 1,2,3,4,5 5154839 d 04 ,10,15,20 ,50, .05 to .75 Allahaba July,20 1,2,3,4,5 8461000 d 04 ,10,15,20 ,50, .05 to .75
8. N.E. Dimapur Sep.,19 5/- 72 360 360 99
9. Karnataka Kallambe March, 20/- 133 2660 2660 lla SO 2003 10 Gujarat Ahmedaba May,200 2300000 2300000 d 3 11 Chhattisg Raipur June,20 2/- 200 400 400 arh HO 03 12 STAMPIT KNK/Delh 1999 25p.,1,2, 1273091 Karnataka i & 3,4, 0 1432733 Mumbai 5,10,20,5 0 0 Madivala 2002 1,2,3,5,1 1596420 0 & 20 13 Punjab Chandiga July,20 1,2,3,5,1 505 117564 161084 rh 02 0,20,50, 84 43520 Rev.1/- 435 20 TOTAL: 6355832 0