Fake certificate racket busted in Hyderabad, six held

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Police Task Force along with the Musheerabad police busted an interstate fake education certificate racket and arrested six persons on Friday. The gang, in exchange of money, supplied fake education certificates to candidates without exams or proper attendance percentage, police said. Police seized rubber stamps of various colleges and government offices, computers, […]

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Police Task Force along with the Musheerabad police busted an interstate fake education certificate racket and arrested six persons on Friday. The gang, in exchange of money, supplied fake education certificates to candidates without exams or proper attendance percentage, police said.

Police seized rubber stamps of various colleges and government offices, computers, fake education certificates and mobile phones.

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The arrested persons were T.Ravikanth Reddy (30), administrator of a private college in Ram Nagar, Mohd Asif (33), administrator in a private college and U.Ranga Raju (41), a consultancy agent.

According to the police, Ravikanth Reddy, Asif Ali and Ranga Raju, met Ketan Singh, an Assistant Professor in SRK University in Bhopal and through him, were supplying fake certificates of SRKU, without exams or attendance after collecting cash.

“They collected information of dropouts, those with backlogs and failed students from colleges and trapped innocent students and parents, promising that they would provide BTech, BSc, BCom and various certificates from the university,” said an official, adding that they collected between Rs.1 lakh to Rs.3 lakh for fake certificates of various degrees, depending on the course and requirement of customers.

Recently, they collected money from nine candidates and sent details to Singh. Of them, five certificates were dispatched and certificates of the rest were pending at the university.

Following a tip-off, the police team caught the suspects while they were handing over the fake certificates to the candidates. Based on their information, three candidates were also taken into custody.

Ketan Singh was earlier arrested by the Malakpet police in a similar case.

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