Student joins medical college with fake certificate, held

A student was on Saturday arrested for joining a course at the government medical college here by allegedly submitting a fake certificate, police said.

On interrogation, the student confessed to the offence and said a person from Delhi had prepared the bogus quota certificate for Rs 60 lakh, the police said.

The arrested had told the police that a gang based in the capital had flown to Madurai to hand over the certificate.

Further investigation was on, they said.