Investigations into the fake admissions under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota has revealed that the suspects involved in the racket used the same details on multiple income certificates. Police said they recovered three income certificates with the same father’s name and would only change the name of the student who required admission. According to police, Mukesh Sharma, a prime suspect in the racket, had submitted a fake income certificate issued from the office of executive magistrate, Alipur, for a student. “The same fake certificate was used in another admission but the issuing authority was changed to the office of executive magistrate, Rohini, and submitted to another school,” a senior officer said. [related-post] Sources said after Sharma was questioned, investigators determined the modus operandi of the organised racket where the names of the child as well as parents were later changed after getting admission. “On sustained questioning, we realised that Sharma had submitted a fake income certificate for a resident of Prashant Vihar at a Rohini school. The documents were allegedly issued from the office of executive magistrate of Alipur,” the officer said. However, Sharma had used the same income certificate in Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura, but changed the address. A senior officer said, “He always submitted a fake income certificate with the name of the same person on it at five leading private schools to secure admission. Sharma then asked parents to change the name of their children. He even suggested that they submit affidavits for the same purpose after six months,” an officer added. Sources further stated that it was in August last year that the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch was informed of an organised admission racket. “Investigators later collected data of nursery admissions of the last two academic years and a special team under the close supervision of ACP (Crime) Ashok Chand and ACP K P S Malhotra started verifying the documents. After checking all documents, we found the admissions were obtained on the basis of income certificates issued under three SDM offices — Alipur, Saraswati Vihar and Rohini,” a police officer said. Later, notices were also sent to SDM offices concerned for verifying the income certificate issued by their respective offices and they informed the investigators that the income certificates were verified from the concerned executive magistrate offices and it was not issued from their offices. Fake income certificates After the Delhi Police busted a fake admissions racket under EWS quota, the Delhi government has now detected 13 cases of fake income certificates with forged signatures of the tehsildars. An preliminary inquiry was conducted on the order of district magistrate (south) Niharika Rai and 13 cases came to fore, according to the release by the DM’s office. One FIR has already been lodged while five FIRs are being lodged in different police stations by the tehsildar (Hauz Khas), the release stated. ENS
