Kalaburagi police bust fake marks card racket, arrest one from Delhi

KALABURAGI: The Kalaburagi Cybercrime, Economic and Narcotics (CEN) police have arrested the kingpin of a fake marks card racket from an apartment at Dwarka in New Delhi. The arrested is Rajiv Singh, a native of Delhi.

The accused would creat fake marks cards of 28 universities across the country including the Bangalore University, the University of Mysore and the Karnataka State Open University, and sell them to unemployed youths.

The police have seized 522 fake marks cards and 1,626 blank marks cards, 36 mobile phones, two laptops and a printer from the accused, apart from 122 rubber stamps of different universities. The police also seized Rajiv Singh’s ATM cards and 122 fake identities and detected 85 bank accounts he was operating.

Rajiv Singh had been creating fake marks cards for the last 7-8 years and would create fakes for Class 12, diplomas in education, laboratory technology and mechanical engineering, doctor of philosophy, BTech among others.