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Rachakonda police busts fake education certificate racket

Rachakonda Police Busts Fake Education Certificate Racket

LB Nagar:Special operations team(SOT) busted a fake degree educational certificate racket and arrested two men involved in the offence. The accused was selling the certificate for Rs 3000. The police have seized fake degree educational certificates of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi and Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Bihar.

With a tip off regarding the fake degree educational certificate racket, SOT-Maheshwaram raided a shop at Lavern Complex, Chaitanyapuri and found the accused in possession of fake educational certificates.

When questioned accused Mohammed Abrar Hussain he confessed that to make quick bucks he started preparing and selling of fake educational certificates to the VISA aspirants and other educational consultancies by using Photoshop software

Investigation revealed that consultancy directors used to hand over the needy certificates and other documents for which they used to collect Rs. 30,000 to 40,000 packages if the aspirants got a VISA. Since last two years he has been providing fake educational certificates to the Consultancy agencies and used to charge about Rs. 2,000 to 3,000 per each, sometimes he used to handover to the needy persons by taking commission.

Sold each Fake certificate for Rs. 2,000 to 3,000

Based on the confession the team arrested accused Mohammed Abrar Hussain who is running a consultancy office and used to create the fake documents with the help of Ram Singh hailing from Uttar Pradesh.

SOT-Maheshwaram Zone team handed over the two accused and the seized materials to Chaitanyapuri police for further investigation. Chaitanyapuri police booked a case under section 420(Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 468(Forgery for purpose of cheating), 471(Using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) r/w 34 of Indian Penal code (IPC).

During interrogation the accused Mohammed Abrar Hussain revealed that he created fake degree certificates and sold them to four persons Sachi Patel from Gujarat, Rahul Sood from Delhi,Ashwaq and Haifa from Mehadipatnam, Hyderabad. The police served the 41 A notices to them. Chaitanyapuri police have launched a manhunt against Ram Singh and further investigation is underway.