<p>It has now been learnt that the Pune-based farm-owner had forged the matriculation certificate of Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) to get a passport from Patna in 1997.<br />The matter came to light after the police investigated the photocopies attached to the passport application form of Hasan Ali submitted in 1997. <br /><br />One of the certificates, matriculation from Bihar Board, was sent to the BSEB for verification, but it turned out to be fake. “After verification, we found it was a forged certificate, not issued by the Bihar School Examination Board,” said its chairman AKP Yadav in Patna.<br /><br />The Regional Passport Office (RPO) here was asked by the investigators to submit documents related to issuance of his passport. Another photocopy attached was the xerox of a ration card, which, police sources say, could easily be forged.<br /><br />Earlier, the police had found that Ali’s residential address in Alamganj locality in Patna was also fake. <br /><br />The police are now looking into the role of the then officer-in-charge of Alamganj police station RK Karn, on whose behest the passport verification was carried out.<br /><br />The investigating team may also quiz some officials of RPO as to how the stud-farm owner was issued passport in a short span of seven days when tatkal passport scheme was not in place. <br /><br />The tatkal scheme came into effect in 1999, Ali applied for passport on April 3, 1997 and received it within seven days, on April 10, 1997.</p>
<p>It has now been learnt that the Pune-based farm-owner had forged the matriculation certificate of Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) to get a passport from Patna in 1997.<br />The matter came to light after the police investigated the photocopies attached to the passport application form of Hasan Ali submitted in 1997. <br /><br />One of the certificates, matriculation from Bihar Board, was sent to the BSEB for verification, but it turned out to be fake. “After verification, we found it was a forged certificate, not issued by the Bihar School Examination Board,” said its chairman AKP Yadav in Patna.<br /><br />The Regional Passport Office (RPO) here was asked by the investigators to submit documents related to issuance of his passport. Another photocopy attached was the xerox of a ration card, which, police sources say, could easily be forged.<br /><br />Earlier, the police had found that Ali’s residential address in Alamganj locality in Patna was also fake. <br /><br />The police are now looking into the role of the then officer-in-charge of Alamganj police station RK Karn, on whose behest the passport verification was carried out.<br /><br />The investigating team may also quiz some officials of RPO as to how the stud-farm owner was issued passport in a short span of seven days when tatkal passport scheme was not in place. <br /><br />The tatkal scheme came into effect in 1999, Ali applied for passport on April 3, 1997 and received it within seven days, on April 10, 1997.</p>
