The Jeypore town police busted a racket of fake certificate on Monday and arrested seven persons involved in the case, including four from Cuttack and nearby locations and three from Koraput district.
They were dealing with fake and forged certificates of different universities and boards, said the police.
Kingpin Ajay Kumar Mohapatro, a native of Baleswar district, was residing in a rented house at Patara Street, Cuttack. The police have seized a computer, CPU, printers, mobile phones, CDs, monograms, seals of different colleges and universities, besides fake certificates.
last month four fake certificates were detected by the Vikram Dev College authorities when some students applied for admission into + 3 course of different streams. An FIR in Jeypore Town Police station was filed on September 13 last in this connection.
The police started their investigation and detected the racket handlers. A special team of Koraput police raided the house of Ajay Mohapatro and arrested Ajay along with his three associates, Kishore Behera of Ranihat Cuttack, Praffulla Barik of Nasanpur and Gokulananda Sahu of Mahanga.
The three others arrested were Samir Pangi of Semiliguda, Raghunath Patro of Sunabeda and Amit Kumar Suna of Nabarangpur.