Pan-India fake degree racket busted

Outlook India 02 February 2018

Three men, including a Delhi University graduate, were arrested for allegedly running a pan-India fake degree racket under which they sold about 50,000 forged certificates of universities and school boards, police said recently, reports Outlook India.

The three accused, Pankaj Arora (35), Pawiter Singh alias Sonu (40), and Gopal Krishna alias Pali (40), were arrested between 5 January and 25 January. The accused, during interrogation, revealed that they had sold at least 50,000 fake degrees and marksheets of various universities and school boards. They placed advertisements in newspapers, promising students all sorts of certificates and degrees, said Vijay Kumar, deputy commissioner of police (West).

In order to convince their clients, they had also set up fake websites of the universities and school boards through which the victims verified the authenticity of the documents. The websites were so convincing that victims could not tell the difference between genuine and fake and thousands of people had secured jobs through these forged certificates, he said.
Full report on the Outlook India site

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