4 held for selling fake certificates in Hyderabad

  Four people were held on Monday for selling fake university certificates by the LB Nagar special operations team. The police seized 103 fake certificates, Rs 2.70 lakh cash from their possession.

The arrested were identified as Shaik Peeru Saheb, Ameen Ahmed Baig, P Prashanth and Uma Maheswar Chary. Meanwhile, the police launched a hunt to nab three other accused who were also involved in the case. According to the police, Saheb who was running an education consultancy would sell fake certificates to the customers, charging amount from Rs 60,000 to Rs 3 lakh depending on the degrees. He would collect 50 per cent of money and asks the customers to transfer the remaining to Baig.

Baig then used to transfer the money to so-called Navdeep who works at Aim Smart Educare Services Pvt Ltd in Vadodara. It is learned that the accused used to obtain certificates from William Carey University in Shillong.