After arrest of four employees of the Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University of Agra, in connection with distribution of fake degrees and certificates of B Ed, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Economic Offense Wing (EOW), released a list of 4570 candidates who procured fake degrees of marksheets in 2005.
The list was sent to vice-chancellor of the said university so that those degrees should be withdrawn and the information in this regard was also dispatched to director Basic Education of Uttar Pradesh, as well as Madhya Pradesh and other adjoining states so that anyone who got job of teacher or on other post with the help of above forged B Ed degrees could be removed. Government also fixed 15-days times to identify those who used the above degree to get appointment. Besides, the SIT also arrested one more accused involved in the racket.
Giving the said information here on Friday afternoon, director general of (EOW), Aloke Prasad said that SIT was presently probing the said matter on direction of the High Court after many government officials were found to have got jobs with the help of fake degrees and marksheets issued by the above university in Uttar Pradesh as well as in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh. He claimed that the SIT team probing the matter found the involvement of four more employees of the Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University of Agra, who facilitate the gang involved in issuing fake mark-sheets and degrees. All the four, identified as Yatha Swamisaran, lakshaman Singh, Satyendra Pal Singh and Saket Prasad, were arrested on October 23 last. He claimed that on the tips provided by the above accused, one more accused, identified as Sanjeev Kumar, a resident of Danapur hamlet of Mainpuri, was arrested from here in lucknow on Friday afternoon.
Prasad disclosed that during probe, they found that 3517 students were illegally enrolled in the university at the last time and later provided marksheet and degree. Similarly, the certificates of 1053 students have been found tempered just to increase the numbers. He said that the SIT is probing the same matter on the directions of the HC after it was found that several persons got jobs on the post of Patwari in Farukkabad in Mainpuri districts of Uttar Pradesh, as well as in Ashok Nagar, Indore, Khargon districts of Madhya Pradesh. In Madhya Pradesh, the recruitment was made in the examination conducted by Madhya Pradesh Vyasaik Pariksha Mandal (Vyapam).
Prasad said that those found using fake degrees and marksheets have been already terminated from their jobs in MP but the HC asked the SIT to get a case registered in the matter and brought the names of the persons who facilitate the forged documents which were later used to get government jobs. The case was already registered with the SIT and many accused were already arrested earlier on but 15 of the accused, whose names already surfaced so far in the racket are yet to be arrested.