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more-inEight persons were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly extorting money from owners of coaching institutes by impersonating University Grants Commission (UGC) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials, the police said on Wednesday. “A police officer was sent to the UGC for identity verification of the detained persons. Fake identity cards to help the gang members pass off as UGC officials and fake letterheads of various universities have also been seized from the accused, they added. A police team reached the spot and found a ‘joint UGC and CBI team’, which comprised women, arguing with the institute owner and threatening him with a raid for not following UGC norms. They pretended to be part of a pan-India project by the UGC to carry out inspections at various educational institutes on its behalf..