Fake degree certificates racket busted in Hyderabad

Assistance professor of Bhopal’s SRK University, agents and 19 students arrested

Hyderabad Central Crime Station (CCS) police has arrested the vice-chancellor and retired chancellor of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan University (SRKU) in a connection with the fake educational certificates scam.

In February, four cases have been registered in four police stations in the city against some agents of educational consultants and management of SRKU in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, for providing educational degree certificates to students without any exam and attendance.

All the cases were transferred to Special Investigation Team (SIT) for better investigation, the police said.

According to A R Srinivas, Assistant Commissioner of Police, SIT, the SRKU issued 101 degree certificates to the students. Among them, 44 certificates were seized from the students. Of these 44 certificates, 13 were BTech and BE courses and the rest were MBA, BSc, etc,

“In charge vice-chancellor Dr Sunil Kapoor obtained anticipatory bail and one Assistance Professor named Ketan Singh of SRK University and seven other agents of various educational institutions in Hyderabad city were also arrested,” the officer said.

A total of 19 students were arrested. Parents of another six students received notices under section 41A CrPC (Criminal Procedure Code).

“On Tuesday, a team visited SRK University Bhopal and arrested the accused persons Dr M Prashanth Pillai the present Vice-Chancellor, and Dr S S Kushwah, Retired Vice-Chancellor/Chairman of SRK University, and being produced before the Court,” the Srinivas said. Efforts are in progress to arrest the remaining accused of SRK University and students who obtained certificates fraudulently.