The Hindu : Two more held in fake certificate racket

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Tuesday, Mar 23, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Two more held in fake certificate racket

By Our Correspondent

ADILABAD, MARCH 22. The Adilabad police on Monday arrested two more persons accused in the fake B.Ed. certificate racket, involving Rs. 45 lakh. The accused were identified as Nathuram Shakya, a lab assistant of Zoology department of Ganjdundwara PG college, affiliated to B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra, and Dasa Bhikshapathi Gupta, of Warangal.

The two accused were produced at a press conference by the Adilabad Superintendent of Police (SP), Mahesh M. Bhagwat, and the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Hanmanth Rao. Nathuram was brought from Ganjdundwara by a special investigation party led by the Adilabad rural Circle Inspector, L. Satyanarayana, and others.

The police team also recovered two seals, supplied by Nathuram, to make the fake B.Ed. certificates.

The accused, Gupta, confessed that he had supplied fake certificates to 12 candidates and with the help of P. Venugopal, a junior assistant at MRO office, Gambhirraopet of Karimnagar, and one R. Venugopal of Karimnagar, he had supplied another 50 certificates. The accused collected Rs. 50,000 from each candidate to issue the fake certificates.

After keeping Rs.5,000 as commission for every fake certificate, they handed over the remaining money to the main kingpin of the racket, Raidu Krishnam Naidu of Tirupati, who had already been arrested along with four others from Adilabad for circulating the fake certificates.

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