Gang preparing fake education certificates, marksheets busted in Telangana; 12 held

HYDERABAD: Gang allegedly engaged in making fake educational certificates was busted and 12 people were arrested in Warangal district on Tuesday, police said.

The gang members prepared fake certificates and marksheets of graduation and other courses of different universities across the country and other educational documents using high quality scanners and sold it to students for enabling them to get admission in educational institutes overseas, they said.

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The gang members were operating for the past two-three years and were charging between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 4 lakh for the fake certificates, Warangal Police Commissioner Tarun Joshi said.

So far 62 students, who went abroad including to the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand for higher education using such fake certificates were identified, the senior official said. Based on specific information, police nabbed 12 members of the gang. Three more members of the gang are still at large.

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Police seized 212 fake certificates, six laptops, printers, fake rubber stamps, lamination machines, among others, from the possession of the accused. Further probe is on.

Meanwhile in Maharashtra, Pune Police arrested Maharashtra State Council of Examination's (MSCE) former commissioner Sukhadev Dere in connection with alleged malpractices in the 2018 Teachers' Eligibility Test, an official said on Tuesday.

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Supe and another person had been arrested by the Pune police for allegedly taking money to change the results of some candidates so that they can clear the TET, officials earlier said. The police had also recovered unaccounted cash and gold ornaments worth over Rs 2 crore from Supe, they said.

Further, in Gujarat, police said they have arrested the main accused in the leakage of a question paper ahead of the written test for the recruitment of head clerks.