In a major breakthrough, Dehradun Police has arrested a lawyer and his accomplice on Wednesday for providing forged documents, including class-X certificates, domicile certificates and others to the Nepali nationals.
Uttar Pradesh Police has also helped the Dehradun Police in nabbing Baburam Sharma, a BSC-llB degree holder who has been practicing in Civil Court lucknow and his accomplice Havaldar Himan Singh Oli, resident of Bahadurpur lucknow.
The accused helped Nepali nationals to appear in the army recruitment rally recently organised at Mahendra Ground in the Army Cantonment area in Dehradun.
The army recruitment rally was held on October 14 to recruit youths from the Gorkha community. The duo were arrested on Wednesday night and sent to Suddhowala jail after being presented in the court on Thursday.
The police also seized some forged certificates similar to those used during the rally by the Nepalese aspirants from their possession.
The military officials had handed over 11 youths of Nepalese origin to police on October 14 night after some military intelligence officials had grilled them for presenting forged documents during the recruitment drive. Regarding this, the head of Recruitment board GR lansdowne, Col BMS Talwar had registered a complaint and a case under sections 420/467/468/120b of IPC was registered against Baburam Sharma and Hawaldar Heeman Singh Oli natives of lucknow Uttar Pradesh in the Cantt police station.
SSP Sadanand Shankar Rao Date said on Thursday that teams from Special Operation Group (SOG) and Cantt police station, formed to crack the case, had been sent to lucknow to arrest the accused. With assistance from local police, Dehradun police had finally arrested the accused on October 21 night. They were sent to Suddhowala jail after being presented in the court on Thursday. Interrogation confirmed the charge they were tagged with, police said.
Notably, the candidates from the Gorkha community from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand were invited in the recruitment rally on October 14. Suspicion arose after one youth was caught presenting fake documents on his educational qualification. The candidate started fumbling when quizzed by the officer concerned. later, he was brought before the military intelligence and was grilled. In the course of interrogation, he revealed that he had purchased class X degree certificates for around Rs 50, 000 from a lucknow-based person.
The military intelligence officer came to learn that some other youths had also procured the same for money in lucknow. All the 11 suspected youths were handed over to their parents after their statements were recorded, a police officer had said.