New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today (April 27, 2004) unearthed a racket in fake non-judicial stamp papers, railway tickets and postal stamps causing loss of crores of Rupees to the State exchequer with the arrest of five persons in Patna.

Two offset printing machines were also seized from the accused, CBI sources said.

The arrests were made on the basis of interrogation of four persons taken into custody by the agency on April 25 for allegedly possessing and selling fake non-judicial stamp papers in Kolkata.