Delhi Police busts fake education board, 6 arrested

: Six people have been arrested for running a fake education board in northeast Delhi’s Shahdara since 2012, police said Friday.

The so-called chairman of the fake education board, Shiv Prasad Pandey, was among the arrested people, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) Nupur Prasad said.

As many as 15,000 fake marksheets of 17 different boards and universities, rubber stamps, printers, computers, etc were seized, Prasad said.

“The accused were arrested on Thursday night after a decoy student was sent to Pandey’s office in east Delhi,” the officer said.

The accused had named the fake institution “Board of Higher Secondary Education, Delhi”. Its website bhsedelhiboard.net claimed it had the recognition of the ministry of human resource development, National Council of Educational Research and Training and various other state education boards, police said.

It claimed it was an autonomous organisation under the “government of India, ministry of education department”.

The arrested men have confessed that people have landed jobs in paramilitary, police, banking services and railways using the degrees and certificates issued and arranged by them. Police are checking their records to find who are these people.

Another confession they made was that in Lucknow alone in 2012, over 5000 candidates were issued these certificates.

Police said a lot of them used these fake documents to obtain passport and take jobs in foreign countries. The police are questioning them to find the beneficiaries and victims. The roles of education board officials and even recruiters are also being probed.

NEW DELHI