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New Delhi, May 19
The Hyderabad police arrested vice-chancellor (V-C) of Bhopal’s Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan University (SRKU), in connection with a fake educational certificates scam.
The police arrested Dr M Prashanth Pillai, the V-C of the university, and Dr S S Kushwaha, a former V-C of the university.
The Hyderabad Police had registered four cases against a few educational consultants and the management of SRK University for allegedly providing educational certificates illegally in return for money. The cases were booked at Malakpet, Asifnagar, Musheerabad, and Chaderghat police stations in Hyderabad and a special investigation team was constituted for the probe.
According to the police, the management was found to have collected huge sums of money from the students and handed them degree certificates of BTech and BE courses, apart from degree certificates of MBA, BSc, BCom etc.
The probe found that SRKU management has issued a total of 101 fake educational certificates so far. Of them, the police have seized 44 certificates so far, the additional CP said, adding that 13 of them were BTech and BE certificates, whereas the rest were degrees of MBA, BSc etc.
The police have arrested 19 students and seven agents belonging to various educational consultancies in Hyderabad.
The police are now hunting for the other accused involved in the case.
