A Mumbai-based youngster was nabbed by Sayajigunj police on Thursday after a fake degree and mark sheets were found with him. The youngster identified as Ketan Valunj had approached M S University (MSU) officials on Wednesday to get a degree certificate. MSU officials sought mark sheets and other documents from Ketan which he produced immediately. When the officials cross-verified the documents and mark sheets with their records, they couldn’t find any student of that name. MSU immediately contacted police and handed him over.
Ketan had produced mark sheets of first year, second year and third year of Bachelors of Commerce apart from a degree certificate. “We examined the mark sheets and found that the font size and colour used on the certificates were different from MSU’s standard style. Also, there was no student of his name in our records. We suspected that he produced fake mark sheets following which we approached the police,” said Amit Dholakia, MSU officer on special duty (registrar).
Dholakia said Ketan admitted to have purchased the mark sheets and certificate dated before 2006 from someone in Mumbai. In fact, Ketan even went to London and completed a hotel management course on the basis of this fake degree. MSU officials suspect that some agency must be involved in the fake mark sheet racket but ruled out involvement of university employees in this case.
Source: indiatimes
