Rajanna-Sircilla: Sircilla Police busted a fake certificates manufacturing gang and arrested five of its members. Fake documents, stamps and mobile phones were recovered from them.
Producing the accused before the media in Sircilla town police station on Tuesday, theSuperintendent of Police explained the modus operandi of the gang.
Siripuram Chandramouli, Polu Prakash, Boddu Shivaji, Chiluka Babu and Bitla Vishnu were arrested. Another accused Sheelam Rajesh is absconding. The issue came to light when a remanded prisoner obtained bail by producing a fake surety certificate. When an enquiry was started by Sircilla Police and taskforce police, they came to know about the fake certificates manufacturing gang.
A retired teacher Chandramouli manufactured fake stamps of Boinpalli Tahsildar, civil assistant surgeon, gram panchayat secretary and a few VIPs. Fake certificates of various government departments, property valuation certificates for court bails, age certificates, date of birth certificates to be issued by government schools, medical certificates, Kalyanalaxmi eligibility certificates, VIPs letter pads and others were manufactured by using fake stamps.
Prakash, Shivaji and Rajesh help Chandramouli in manufacturing fake certificates. Former deputy sarpanch of Anakapalli, Chandurthy mandal, got benefits by getting a fake certificate from the gang. More people got fake certificates from the gang.