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Noida News: The Noida police on Saturday stated that a former employee of a Noida firm was arrested allegedly for generating fake bills of nearly Rs 10 crore. The officials further stated that the accused used the fake bills to claim input tax credit of Rs 1.8 crore. While providing details, the officials stated that the accused, Abhinav Tyagi, is a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad; however, he has been residing in the Greater Noida's Bisrakh region. The Noida police arrested Tyagi for generating fake bills on Saturday and are further questioning him for more details. A case has been registered under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Information Technology Act, the officials informed.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Noida) Shavya Goyal informed that the cyber police arrested the accused on Saturday, adding that he had prepared fake bills. “On Saturday, the Cyber Police, Noida, arrested Abhinav Tyagi. He had prepared fake invoices amounting to about Rs 10 crore to claim GST of Rs 1.8 crore," Goyal was quoted as saying by PTI.

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The officials informed that the accused worked at the accounts section of a firm and handled tax-return portals and GST filings, adding that he planned the fraud along with an accomplice. Apart from this, the cyber police also recovered multiple mobile phones, SIM cards, a car, documents, and a laptop from the accused. The arrest was made amid several reports of finance-related forgery in Delhi-NCR in the past few months.

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The police also stated that while Tyagi is being questioned and is set to be produced in a court, they are trying to nab his accomplice. In a separate incident on Friday, a delivery man allegedly coerced a woman to remove her clothes by holding a knife to her child's neck. The Gautam Buddh Nagar police arrested him in Noida after the woman filed a complaint.