Kalaburagi police bust inter-State degree certificate racket, arrest kingpin in Delhi who created fake marks cards of 28 universities across India

The accused was involved in creating fake marks cards for the last eight years. He was selling each certificate for anywhere between ₹20,000 to ₹50,000 depending on the course.

The Kalaburagi City Police and the Cybercrime, Economic and Narcotics (CEN) police have busted an inter-State fake degree certificate racket and arrested the kingpin in Delhi on February 18.

The accused, Rajiv Singh Arora, is a native of Delhi. He was creating fake marks cards of 28 universities of different States across India, including the certificates of Bangalore University, Mysore University and Karnataka State Open University.

Addressing a media conference in Kalaburagi on February 27, Police Commissioner Sharanappa S. Dhage said that a team led by Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Kanika Sikriwal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and traffic) Praveen H. Nayak and Assistant Commissioner of Police (CEN) P. S. Madolappa arrested Rajiv Singh Arora. They seized 522 fake marks cards, 1,626 blank marks cards, 122 fake seals (rubber stamps) of 54 different universities and 68 educational institutions, 36 mobile phones, 13 SIM cards, four hard disks, two laptops, a printer, and five pen drives and ₹1.2 lakhs in cash from the accused.

The police seized 123 blank Identity cards printed in the name of different Universities, institutions and organisations, and 403 fake hologram stickers of various institutions.

Dr. Dhage said that a five-year-old case of a fake certificate racket in Kalaburagi in which Mohammad Khan, owner of Allegiance Technology and Placement Bureau – located inside a cloth centre at Asian Mall, was arrested took police to co-accused Hariprasad in Davangere and Jagadish in Bengaluru. These leads eventually led the police to Rajiv Singh Arora.

The accused was involved in creating fake marks cards for the last eight years. He was selling each certificate for anywhere between ₹20,000 to ₹50,000 depending on the course. However, during interrogation, police found that the accused had not maintained any data of the total number of fake certificates he had sold.