HYDERABAD: The managing director of a private company and five others were arrested for issuing CISCO certificates by fraudulent means. The private company was issuing the certificates by impersonating the candidates who does not have the requisite knowledge to get the certificate.
The fraud was unearthed following a complaint by an authorised agent of NCS Pearson India Private Limited which has several authorised centres in the city to conduct examinations for the CISCO test. A person who gets the CISCO certificate could get jobs of a network administrator. The Cyber Crime Cell of the Central Crime Station (CCS) received the complaint on April 20 and investigated the matter.
During investigation, the CCS sleuths found that one of the CISCO authorised centres, MIST Private Limited, situated in Ameerpet and Narayanaguda has been indulging in impersonation of candidates who approached them for CCNA certification and collected huge sums of money from them as well.
“The process of exam for genuine candidates is that a candidate having requisite knowledge in networking and administration, appearing for CCNA exam should pay Rs 13,250 and is given the date and time for writing exam. On the specified day, the candidate should appear before the administrator along with receipt and identification proof. The candidate is given an identification number and his signature is obtained on a digital signature pad and his photograph taken through webcam.
Only then is the candidate allowed to write an exam,” DCP (detective department) R S Praveen Kumar said in a release on Monday.
The managing director of the MIST private limited, G Hanumanth Reddy, however, conducted examination for unqualified persons who were brought by a mediator, Rajasekhar, by taking extra money to help unqualified students get the CISCO certification. Hanumanth Reddy instructed his faculty and system administrators — V Satyanarayana Reddy, D Kista Reddy, A Sandeep and S Rafiq — to help the students get through the CCNA examination by impersonating them. “The faculty and system administrators helped around 115 students referred by Hanumanth Reddy to get through the CCNA exam by impersonation,” Praveen Kumar said.
Police arrested Mist Private Limited managing director, Hanumanth Reddy, Satyanarayana Reddy, Kista Reddy, Sandeep, Rafiq and another person, Ch Pradeep Kumar, and remanded them to judicial custody.