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TNN | Dec 28, 2020, 04.44 AM IST

HYDERABAD: A Delhi-based education consultant has reportedly supplied fake MBBS certificates to YS Teja, who hoodwinked Rachakonda police and even became their adviser during the Covid-induced lockdown, and another person from Shabad, who studied up to Intermediate and started a small hospital.

Investigators found Delhi-based consultant Sunil facilitated in supplying the fake certificates to Teja and Shabad resident, whose name is reportedly Ram Reddy, from a university in Chhattisgarh. Already, health department officials have ordered a departmental probe into certificates of 100 doctors practising in Hyderabad and adjoining districts.

Police said in all cases of fake education certificates, they found that miscreants had fabricated fake certificates of different institutions by illegally printing them and sold them to the prospective customers. However, the candidates would not be in the records.

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A multi-agency probe team comprising cops, Indian Medical Association and National Medical Commission authorities must be set up to bust the racket behind people obtaining fake certificates from other states. Hospital authorities and other employers in Telangana are also guilty of not checking the veracity of certificates submitted by the candidates. There must be stringent checks in place, especially when the fate of scores of innocent people are at stake.

“Teja and the Shabad resident came in contact with Sunil after they googled for consultants who can help them get fake certificate. Teja paid Rs 40,000 as advance and a photocopy of a fake MBBS certificate was created on his name and sent on the condition that he will be given the actual fake certificate if he pays the remaining Rs 2 lakh,” Medipally inspector B Anji Reddy told TOI. Chhattisgarh Medical University confirmed to police that the certificate produced by Teja in the name of an affiliated college of their university was fake.

When police nabbed Sunil from Delhi, they found he had supplied fake certificates to several persons. Ram Reddy was one such beneficiary and he started a small hospital, which was shut by police a month ago.

Similarly, Hyderabad police found that M Srinu Naik, who was arrested a month ago, reportedly had bought M Tech certificate by paying Rs 2 lakh through a broker, Srinivas Reddy of Nalgonda, from CMJ University, Meghalaya. However, there were records of his enrolment with the institution.

Police said fake graduation certificates were being sold by some agents for a maximum price of Rs 1 lakh.

Hyderabad deputy commissioner of police (Task Force) Radhakishan Rao said in almost all fake certificate cases they had dealt with, the accused had bought them from other states—mainly Bihar, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra. “We found the accused who seek fake certificate prefer to get them from other states since they presume verification of such certificates will be difficult for an employer,’’ he said.