Jamshedpur, June 27: A fake certificate racket has been busted in Jharkhand following the arrest of three persons, including a lecturer and a central school teacher, from east Singhbhum district here. Acting on a tip-off, a task force formed by the district police recently raided the house of one Madhusudan Tiwari, who claimed to be a lecturer of a local college, from Birsanagar here and recovered over 4000 fake certificates of matriculation to degree courses of various secondary boards and universities, police said.

The accused were suspected to have issued fake certificates of Bihar School Secondary Board, Benaras University, Ranchi University and Jharkhand School Education Board to several candidates who had applied for the fake documents, they said.

Police, who arrested Tiwari and Manoj Kumar Lala from their residences in Birsanagar last night, did not rule out their links with gangs operating in Jharkhand and Bihar.

Their interrogation led the police to conduct similar raids in the house of one Shiv Shankar Poddar, a central school teacher in Moubhandar near Ghatsila this morning.

Fake certificates and rubber stamps were recovered from his house but a major portion of the fake material had been destroyed before the arrival of the police team, police added.

Bureau Report