HYDERABAD: Owner of an educational consultancy was apprehended by the west zone task force police for selling fake educational certificates to students.
Acting on a tip-off, the task force sleuths raided the office of Hyderabad College of Distance Educational & Advanced Studies, near Model House in Punjagutta, and apprehended its owner Mohammed Zumair alias Hussain (43) and seized 60 fake graduation certificates bearing the names of various universities. It was found that accused Zumair earlier ran a placement consultancy at Malakpet three years ago and cheated several job aspirants and collected huge amounts of money from them.
In 2015, he started the educational consultancy to earn easy money by selling fake certificates obtained from brokers based in New Delhi. He shared the details of his customers with the brokers and received certificates from them through courier. The accused sold engineering certificates for Rs 80,000, MBA certificates for Rs 40,000, MCA certificates for Rs 50,000, degree certificates for Rs 40,000 and intermediate certificates for Rs 15,000. He also maintained a fake educational institution called National Institute of Management and Engineering Studies under the website www.nimes.in. He has sold nearly 100 fake educational certificates so far.
The police seized fake certificates of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidhyapith, Chatrapathi Shahuji Maharaj University, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Board of Secondary Education of Okhla among others. Two laptops, fake stamps, two mobile phones and other material were also seized from his office. He was also wanted in three old cases.