The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police has busted an inter-state organized gang which illegally recruits youth for railway and army competitive examinations in West Bengal and North-Eastern states by preparing fake residence certificates and Aadhaar cards. Was. Police sources said on Monday that the Varanasi unit of STF raided Jamui village of Ballia city police station on Sunday and arrested a fraudster named Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay.
According to PTI, a case has been registered at Ballia city police station on the complaint of STF Inspector Puneet Parihar. Citing the FIR, he said that STF’s Varanasi unit had received information that candidates living in UP from areas around Ballia district were using fake residence certificates of West Bengal, especially Kolkata, to appear in competitive examinations. Are. He said that an organized gang is working on this.
Sources said that during the investigation, it was found that a person named Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay makes fake residence certificates to get people to appear in the examinations for Army, Railways and other government jobs. On Sunday, based on information, STF arrested Upadhyay, resident of Chandpur village of Bansdih police station area of Ballia district and recovered a large number of fake residence certificates from him.
According to the FIR, Upadhyay told the police during interrogation that he makes fake residence certificates of West Bengal, especially Kolkata, for the youth of Ballia and surrounding areas. On the basis of this, they appear in the recruitment examinations of Army and Railways in West Bengal and North-Eastern states. He used to charge up to three lakh rupees for getting a certificate made.
According to sources, Upadhyay gets fake residence certificate and Aadhaar card made with the help of people named Mithun Karmakar, Manoj Kumar Singh and Rajan Singh, residents of West Bengal. Upadhyay also told during interrogation that till now he has made more than one thousand fake residence certificates. He himself was recruited in the army in the year 2000 on the basis of fake documents. It has been said in the FIR that due to fear of being caught during certificate verification, he left the training midway and ran away.
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