# Kumbh Mela authority to warn contractors about fake work orders 2026-08-17T19:16:58+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The Nashik Trimbakeshwar Kumbh Mela Authority will launch an awareness drive to alert contractors about fake work orders. The move follows the detection of eight bogus work orders, with two cases in April and six more this week. NTKMA commissioner Sekhar Singh said genuine work orders have a QR code linking to the official website for verification. Police said six gang members have been arrested and booked under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The accused allegedly prepared fake documents at a computer centre in Jalgaon and sold six orders to three contractors for over Rs 3 crore. Deputy commissioner Kirankumar Chavan said the gang affixed a purported digital signature of NTKMA chairman Praveen Gedam. Among those arrested is Tanay Mahajan, a distant relative of Kumbh Mela minister Girish Mahajan, who said he had not met the accused for a long time. Police said no government official was involved in the fraud. ## Coverage - hindustantimes.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Nashik Trimbakeshwar Kumbh Mela Authority, Sekhar Singh Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/kumbh-mela-authority-to-warn-contractors-about-fake-work-orders/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/kumbh-mela-authority-to-warn-contractors-about-fake-work-orders/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/