On November 14, 2023, Delhi police arrested a gang that dabbled in forging mark sheets, and certificates of government and private universities. The offenders posed as a reputable education institutions and charged around ₹20,000 and ₹2.2 lakh for fake certificates. Over the course of the previous three years, they issued over 2,000 phony degrees. The police have apprehended two persons.
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The crime branch of Delhi :
The Delhi Police Crime Branch said on Monday, “The accused fabricated degrees, mark sheets, and certificates of various government-run and private universities, and two people were arrested.”
The two individuals who were arrested were identified as the institute’s 34-year-old owner Dal Chand Meherolia and his 30-year-old partner Mahaveer Kumar. Further they added that they functioned under the guise of running an educational institute.Kumar was arrested from his Burari home, while Meherolia was taken into custody from his office.
Fake Degree Certificate Syndicate :
According to the special commissioner of police (crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav, the syndicate began this illicit business during the Covid-19 pandemic and has since sold more than 2,000 forged marksheets . Numerous people with forged degrees and certificates have found successful employment both domestically and overseas.
Yadav claims that information about the syndicate running under the name of MH Eduversity, Digital School of India, was recently provided to the crime branch’s southern range team by an office located in Pitampura’s Netaji Subhash Place Complex.
Nineteen fraudulent mark sheets, certificates, and degrees from various universities, including William Carey University, Shanghai International University, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Kalinga, and Bihar, were found. In the office, our team also found 14 phones, 11 laptops, and phony stamps, Yadav continued.
Statements of the two culprits :
The co-accused Mahaveer was taken into custody in Burari. Meherolia revealed during questioning that he had been in charge of this institute since 2020 and had hired a number of telecaller girls for his workplace. An officer stated, “They used to call the students to find out if they were interested in applying to universities or colleges, and they gave Meherolia the information of the interested students.”
Meherolia then got in touch with them via WhatsApp and persuaded them into getting a degree without providing the necessary paperwork. “He didn’t meet any students in person; instead, he obtained their information, created marksheets for the students he wanted, and charged anything from Rs 20,000 to Rs 2 lakhs for everything from PhD degrees to 10th standard certificates. Then he sent the degrees to the customers by courier.
The accused confessed about making holograms for the forged documents.They added to the police report by saying that they had sold more than 2000 degrees and that many people in possession of these forged marksheets had been hired thanks to the documents they had supplied.
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