GULBARGA: The Gulbarga police on Thursday busted certificates and marks card racket with the arrest of two persons.

The arrested allegedly were involved in the supply of fake certificates and marks cards pertaining to Visveshwaraya Technological University, Gulbarga University, Karnataka State Secondary Examination Board and Directorate of Pre-University Education and the Directorate of Technical Education.

Additional Superintendent of Police Ravikumar Naik told The Hindu that the arrested persons, Ijaz Ahmed (33), an engineering graduate from Pattan, on the outskirts of the city, and Ashraf, who owned a screen-printing unit in the city, were the main accused in the racket. The police were on the look out for three more persons who acted as agents.

Mr. Naik said the police were following up on information about the operation of fake marks cards and certificates in Gulbarga city and arrested the two on Thursday morning near Station Bazaar police station and recovered 30 bogus marks cards, certificates, six mobiles and Rs. 92,000 from them.

The accused had printed the bogus marks card and certificates in the printing unit owned by Ashraf and then sold them for a price from Rs. 4,000 to Rs. 8,000. Mr. Naik gave the names of the three persons, who were wanted by the police, as Rafiq and Ijaj hailing from industrial township of Wadi in Chitapur taluk and Ilyas from Gulbarga city, who acted as agents.

He said the preliminary investigation had revealed that the accused were running the racket for the more than three years. The police teams raided the printing unit and the residences of the accused and recovered incriminating documents and blank marks cards, he said. Ijaz Ahmed completed his engineering degree in 1998 and was living at Santraswadi. Ashraf was a resident of the Station Bazaar locality and had been running the printing unit for the several years, the police said.

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