7 held for forgery of marksheets, ID cards

Police today claimed to have busted a racket of forgery of marksheets and government-approved identification cards here with the arrest of seven persons, including a Kanpur University clerk.
Following a tip off about the gang's operation in Pared and Maniram Bagiya area, Crime Branch and local police team conducted a raid and nabbed the accused, SSP Yashaswi Yadav said.
Numerous high school, inter, graduate, postgraduate, BBA, BSc, and MBA market sheets and degrees from various institutions have been recovered from their possession, Yadav said.
Government-approved voter identification cards with 34 paper stamps and Rs 60,000 have also been seized, he said.

Among the seven accused is Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University clerk Mahesh and driver of the university registrar Mukesh Jha.
The other accused are Kamlesh Gupta, Nitin Aggarwal, Madanmohan, Ashish Sharma and Shyamji.
Police is searching for other members involved in the racket and trying to identify the persons from which the gang used to buy fake mark sheets, he said.