TIP OF THE ICEBERG
Fake marksheet racket busted in Anand
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Vadodara/ Anand: 16.12.2020
Acting on a tip-off, the Anand special operation group (SOG) busted a racket of making and selling marksheets and certificates and arrested three persons.
One of them is from Anand and two from Vadodara. As the trio is linked with a visa consultancy firm, cops suspect that the arrest could lead to a bigger fake visa racket as well.
SOG sleuths had got specific information that one Kanu Rabari, a resident of Atithi Apartment in Anand’s Mangalpura area, was running a visa consultancy firm through which foreign aspirants were sold fake marksheets and degree certificates of several educational institutes. When the cops raided his house, they found huge stacks of files containing fake marksheets and certificates of a number of educational institutes including Sardar Patel University, Gujarat University, Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) apart from colleges. As many as 106 fake marksheets and certificates, 16 original ones, 30 passports, mobile and cash worth Rs 22.50 lakh were seized from Rabari’s house. Rabari revealed that he was in touch with Vadodara resident Aditya Patel, who through another accused resident Hiren alias Sonu Satham, provided bogus documents to those seeking jobs abroad.
“The trio have confessed that they have forged hundreds of such marksheets and certificates,” said Anand district superintendent of police Ajit Rajian. “The trio used their knowledge of visa consultancy to execute the fraud. They were aware of the companies and countries where chances of marksheets and certificates getting cross-verified is low,” said Rajian. They have also seized 52 other fake marksheets and certificates, 57 rubber stamps, sophisticated printers and dye-making items among others from Satham.
The arrested trio ran visa consultancy in Anand
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