Delhi varsity fake admission racket busted; four held

The police on Thursday busted an admission racket in Delhi University (DU) colleges with fake documents and arrested four men, including a student of Sri Aurobindo College. Their link has been confirmed in 22 fake admissions this year.

“The racketeers would charge Rs 3-7 lakh for admission in a college and course of the aspirant’s choice,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.

The gang had been running the racket for three years and arranged admissions in Hindu College, Kirori Mal College, Sri Aurobindo College, Dyal Singh College, Ram Lal Anand College, Pannalal Girdharlal Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College and Kamala Nehru College.

“The suspected forged documents on the basis of which the admissions were secured were being obtained from the colleges for further scrutiny,” Yadav added.

The arrested are Sunil Panwar, 41, Mohammad Juber, 25, Ranchit Khurana, 30, and Praveen Jha, 35. Large number of forged mark-sheets, degrees, character certificates and 40 stamps of government universities, education boards and colleges have also been recovered. They also used to forge seals of the authorised signatories.

On Wednesday, the police were informed that three persons involved in the racket would come to Malviya Nagar in south Delhi in a Maruti Ertiga. “We laid a trap and apprehended Sunil, Juber and Ranchit,” Yadav said.

Interrogation revealed that Sunil was the gang leader, who along with Sri Aurobindo College student Juber procured details of teenagers who failed to get admission in Delhi University colleges due to low marks.

They gave the details to Ranchit, who used to get forged documents prepared from Praveen. Praveen was also apprehended.

The gang told the police that they mainly forged documents of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar institutions. “They used to upload details of the fake certificates and mark-sheets on the websites to enable online verification. They had also printed fake degrees of various universities for candidates seeking jobs in private sector,” Yadav added.