Pramesh S Jain & Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
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fficials of the CCB on Tuesday busted a fake marks card racket and arrested five people who are operating from an private educational institute offering any degree without coaching and exam for a price ranging from Rs.50,000 to 1 lakh.
The accused were running Venkateshwara Institute from Mahalakshmi Layout with two branches in Kodigehalli and Marathahalli area for the last few years and used to forge the marks cards and degree certificates of reputed colleges and universities across the country and sell it to their clients .
Based on the complaint,three special teams under the leadership and with able guidance of Joint CP Crime,Dr SD Sharanappa formed to raid the institutes simultaneously and arrested the accused.
The official seized 1097 fake documents,PhD dissertation books,hard disks,printers computers, seals of many universities and colleges and mobile phones for further investigations.
The racket came to light few days ago when a woman approached the institute,seeking admission for Bcom correspondence course on November first week .
The staff asked her to pay Rs.1 lakh for the course fee and took an advance fee of Rs.40,000 promised to issue degree certificates without exam or conducting coaching classes.
The victim,who later complained to the police baffled with the response and returned home .
A few days ago she got a shock of her life as she received two years course completion certificates from a reputed college.
When she contacted the institute the staff demanded the remaining amount to issue the final years certificate along with the convocation certificate .
Shocked by this,she approached the cyber crime police and filed a complaint.Based on the complaint,the police obtained the court permission to carry out the raid and search warrant and arrested the accused and seized the valuables .
The accused have also offered PhD doctorate degree for a price of Rs.10 lakh from any university of the candidates choice .
The CCB police are now probing further to ascertain the details of the beneficiaries and the background of the accused.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,CH Pratap Reddy has appreciated Joint CP Crime,Dr SD Sharanappa,DCP Crime-1,Yathish Chandra GH, ACP,Smt.Reena Suvarna,PI,Hazaresh Khilladhar,Smt.Durga,and other crime staff has been appreciated for the exemplary and meticulous investigation done by them in nabbing the five member gang who used to cheat students a suitable reward will be given to whole team he added.
