New Delhi:
Two officials of the Delhi University (DU) have been arrested in connection with the fake caste certificates racket. Those arrested have been identified as Sanjeet Mahajan and Neeraj Sharma, both DU's SC/ST cell staffers, police said.
The racket led by Himanshu Gupta (26) allegedly managed to secure admissions for 12 students in eight colleges this admission season. It was busted by Delhi Police's Crime Branch on June 23 with the arrest of three youths, including a contract employee in a tehsildar office.
"The interrogation of the three persons led to the arrest of these two DU employees," the official said.
Those arrested on June 23 were Himanshu and his associates Vikas (24) and Ketan Gupta (24), who is a data entry operator on contract basis at Mehrauli tehsildar office.
On the modus operandi, the official said, Himanshu and Vikas floated an educational consultancy firm and advertised in leading newspapers in Delhi and other cities about facilitating admissions. They charged Rs 3-5 lakh for getting a student admitted in the college of their choice.
In this academic session, 10 forged caste certificates shown as issued from the office of tehsildar in Mehrauli were allegedly prepared by Ketan.
"Data of the forged certificates was uploaded by Ketan on the official website so that if anybody checked its authenticity, the same could be verified from the official website. Three forged caste certificates, shown as issued from the office of tehsildar in Ghaziabad, were prepared by one of their associates Satish who is absconding," he said.
The gang was operating since 2008. In the previous years, they secured admission for students in Delhi University on the basis of forged caste certificates which were shown to have been issued in Ghaziabad.
The racket led by Himanshu Gupta (26) allegedly managed to secure admissions for 12 students in eight colleges this admission season. It was busted by Delhi Police's Crime Branch on June 23 with the arrest of three youths, including a contract employee in a tehsildar office.
"The interrogation of the three persons led to the arrest of these two DU employees," the official said.
Those arrested on June 23 were Himanshu and his associates Vikas (24) and Ketan Gupta (24), who is a data entry operator on contract basis at Mehrauli tehsildar office.
On the modus operandi, the official said, Himanshu and Vikas floated an educational consultancy firm and advertised in leading newspapers in Delhi and other cities about facilitating admissions. They charged Rs 3-5 lakh for getting a student admitted in the college of their choice.
In this academic session, 10 forged caste certificates shown as issued from the office of tehsildar in Mehrauli were allegedly prepared by Ketan.
"Data of the forged certificates was uploaded by Ketan on the official website so that if anybody checked its authenticity, the same could be verified from the official website. Three forged caste certificates, shown as issued from the office of tehsildar in Ghaziabad, were prepared by one of their associates Satish who is absconding," he said.
The gang was operating since 2008. In the previous years, they secured admission for students in Delhi University on the basis of forged caste certificates which were shown to have been issued in Ghaziabad.
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