Police uncovers fake marksheet racket
“The Times of India”, India on 15th June 2011 : A 46-year-old Allahabad University graduate and three of his associates have been arrested for allegedly selling fake Class 10 and 12 certificates. The arrested have been identified as Mange Ram Acharya (46), Dilip Kumar Shukla (42), Manoj Kumar Mishra (31) and Dharamjeet Singh (21). Acharya, the kingpin of the fake education racket, also nurses political ambitions and is fond of using beacon lights on his private vehicles. A car has been recovered from him, said cops. He has allegedly issued “thousands of fake certificates” so far. He has contested elections to Parliament, Assembly and the MCD from trans-Yamuna areas in 1996, 1998 and 1999. He was planning to contest the forthcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh from Mathura, claimed cops.
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