Deepika Pasham
Hyderabad
Sleuths of the Special Operations Team (SOT), LB Nagar Zone along with Chaitanyapuri Police personnel, have busted a racket involved in forging educational certificates.The police apprehended Miryala Anand Kumar, Mallepaka Hemanth, and Shaik Shaheen for making and supplying fake educational certificates using the names of various reputed universities.They were selling the fake certificates to persons seeking visas to go abroad (the UK/the US) or secure jobs in the private sector.
The police filed cases under CR.No.865/2022 U/Sec.420,468,471,120 (B)r/w 34IPC in PS Chaitanyapuri, under the Rachakonda Police Commissionerate. They seized fake educational certificates prepared in the names of reputed universities such as Osmania University (10), Jawaharlal Nehru University (14), Andhra University (08), Acharya Nagarjuna University (06), Kakatiya University (03), SRM University (04), Telangana State Board of Intermediate ( 05), SSC (06), GITAM University (12), Gulbarga University (06), Annamalai University (04), GRE (10), Aadhaar cards (05), Diploma certificates-(04), Driving Licence-(04), Letter of recommendations (11), Offer letters(08), Bank certificates(13), Pay slips(03), and Loan sanction letters(14), among others.The accused, Anand Kumar, having completed Bachelor of Fine Arts from JNTU – Hyderabad, has been running a flex designing unit at Chaitanyapuri styled as Art Line Arts under the limits of Chaitanyapuri PS.
To supplement his income, Anand Kumar had hatched a plan to make and supply fake educational certificates to students. He came in contact with Mallepaka Hemanth and Kalyan who had been running educational consultancies at Malakpet and Saroor Nagar.
The accused used to collect information relating to dropouts or failed students from different colleges and approach them and/or their parents with offers to supply them desired educational certificates and other documents for securing visa to go to the UK/the US and other countries or secure jobs. The accused used to collect huge amounts for supplying the fake certificates.
Anand Kumar used to prepare the fake educational certificates and other documents using Adobe Photoshop software at his flex shop and printing the same.
Hemanth Kumar has been running Ricco Consultancy at Malakpet for the last two years. He came in contact with Anand Kumar and obtained fake educational certificates for Rs 2,000 to 3,000 each. He used to hand over the fake certificates and other documents to students after collecting Rs 50,000 to 60,000 as a package deal.
