South Zone Police arrest five for selling fake educational certificates

Claim to have seized bogus degrees, stamped papers, tickets, pay orders

South Zone Police launched an operation against a group involved in making fake certificates of educational institutions. Gizri Police arrested five persons in this regard on Monday, including an assistant director of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC). The police seized fake education certificates, bogus pay orders of private banks, counterfeit tickets to different countries, and stamped papers, all allegedly found in the possession of the apprehended suspects.

In a raid carried out at a house in PNT Colony, Chaudhry Khaliquz Zaman Road, Gizri police arrested five suspects who were identified as Sardar Ahmed son of Siraj Ahmed, Kashif son of Ghulam Jaffer, Mohsin Ali son of Mukhtiar, Muhammad Tariq son of Haider Afzal, and Syed Abdul Ghani son of Abdul Malik. According to police sources, Syed Abdul Ghani is an assistant director of a municipal committee.

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The police confiscated around 38 written certificates of higher education institutes, 40 certificates without the name of the institutes, fake printed stickers of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and other institutions, counterfeit tickets to different countries, three bogus pay orders of private banks, stamped papers, a list of tenured vice chancellors of Karachi University (KU), 18 stamps of various educational institutes, different serial numbers and dates, and a white plastic box containing pens, markers, stamp pads, around 250 to 300 stickers, photocopied CNICs, several documents and various pictures.

According to South SSP Sheeraz Nazeer and Clifton SP Suhai Aziz, during initial interrogation, the suspects confessed to have been engaged in this work of issuing fraudulent certificates for some time. They had also been selling bogus certificates and counterfeit mark-sheets of KU, intermediate and matric.

The police also claimed to have found one gram of Ice drug in the possession of Kashif, and a bottle of alcohol in the possession of Mohsin Ali. Three cases have been registered against the apprehended suspects.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 5^th, 2019.