Police get list of 20 people who got jobs with fake edu board degrees

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Monday said that they had accessed a list of some of the beneficiaries of the gang running a fake admission racket, which they had busted last week.

Investigators had obtained details of 20 persons whose employers purportedly sent their details for verification to the fake ‘Board of Higher Secondary Education Delhi’ this year and documents pertaining to 48 schools that applied for affiliation this year.

The police refused to give the details saying they would have to individually cross check the details obtained from the six arrested members of the gang.

“For now we have obtained two registers carrying details of those who applied for jobs using the degrees provided by the fake board and the list of schools. These are cases where prospective employers sent the documents of the candidates to the ‘Board’ for verification,” said DCP (Shahdara) Nupur Prasad.

HT had earlier reported that when candidates used this board’s certificates to get jobs, the recruiting agency would often send requests to the board to ver- ify the authenticity of the documents. “Basically, a fake board would verify a fake certificate,” Ravindra Yadav, joint CP (eastern range), had told HT.

On the verification process, Prasad said that they would send teams to the universities whose degrees these candidates had produced and then ascertain if those were genuine. If found fake, the employers would be approached.

All 48 schools are either from UP or Bihar where affiliations were sold for anywhere between ₹10,000-51,000. The police will write to these schools and the concerned education department.