A BMC report flagged the fake records (Image generated using AI). The Mumbai police on Tuesday formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate offences of providing fake birth registration certificates to illegal foreign nationals. An officer said that it has come to light that a large number of such birth certificates have been obtained through fraudulent means. The SIT will be headed by the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) and will comprise the Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime), the Additional Commissioner of Police (Special Branch), the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detection), Crime Branch, and other officers. In a post on X, BJP leader Kirit Somaiya thanked Police Commissioner Deven Bharti for constituting an SIT. An internal probe report by the BMC recently uncovered violations in the birth and death registration system, and found that nearly 87,000 corrections from 2024 to 2026 were made not in the mandatory registration system but in the old manner.…