Fake Certificate racket busted: SRKU VC, 19 students held

Hyderabad: The City Police have busted a fake certificate racket by arresting 29 people including 19 students and the Vice Chancellor of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan University (SRKU), Bhopal.

A police release here on Wednesday said, in the month of February this year, in connection with fake certificates racket, four cases were registered in the police stations of Malakpet Asif Nagar, Musheerabad and Chaderghat against some agents of educational consultants and management of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan University (SRKU), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh for providing educational certificates to needy students without any exam and attendance by collecting huge money.

All these cases were transferred to Special Investigation Team (SIT) for better supervision & investigation.

SRK University had issued a total of 101 educational certificates to the students. Among them 44 certificates were seized from the students.

Out of these 44 certificates, 13 belong to B’Tech and BE courses and remaining 31 are various degree certificates like MBA, BSc, etc.,

SRKU Vice-Chancellor (In-charge) Dr Sunil Kapoor obtained anticipatory bail and one Assistant Ketan Singh of SRK University was arrested in the case.

Seven agents– A Srikanth Reddy, A.Srinadh Reddy, Patwari Shashidar, PKV Swamy, Gunti Maheswar Rao, Asif Ali, T.Ravikanth Reddy & Uppari Ranga Raju– of various educational institutions of Hyderabad city were also arrested.

Nineteen students were arrested and six parents of the students obtained anticipatory bail and parents of another 6 students received notices U/s. 41A Cr.PC.

A team visited SRK University Bhopal on Tuesday and arrested Dr M Prasahanth Pillai, the present Vice Chancellor and Dr S S Kushwah, Retired Vice Chancellor/Chairman of SRK University and being produced before the Court.

Efforts were on to arrest the remaining accused of SRK University and students who obtained certificates fraudulently, the release added.