Sanjeev Kumar and his wife Pooja Srivastava were produced before the court here after they were brought to Shillong from Patna yesterday.
They were remanded to six days police custody, East Khasi Hills Superintendent of Police (SP) M Kharkrang said.
The couple had been issuing fake marksheets by using the name of a university which is not yet functional.
They have been selling the fake marksheets to people hailing from Bihar, West Bengal, Delhi, Rajasthan and Jharkhand.
Besides, cash up to Rs 17 lakhs, two laptops, seals, hologram and letter head of Techno Global University, provisional certificates, blank mark sheets of Chandra Mohan Jha University (CMJ) were also seized by the police.
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