Swapna’s arrest recorded for forging degree certificate

Thiruvananthapuram: The Cantonment Police recorded the arrest of Swapna Suresh, the second accused in the gold smuggling case, in a forgery case registered against her. The arrest was recorded on Thursday by Cantonment station house officer by visiting the jail in Kakkanad where Swapna Suresh is currently housed after being arrested by NIA and Enforcement Directorate.
Police had registered a case against Swapna as first accused, and Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Vision Technologies as the second and third accused respectively for forging documents to get a job for Swapna in Kerala State IT Infrastructure Ltd (KSITL). The case was filed on the basis of a complaint by Jayashankar Prasad, managing director, KSITL.
Police had charged the case under sections 406, 465, 468, 471, 420 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, that deals with criminal breach of trust, forgery, cheating and using forged document for one’s advantage. The charges, if proven, can award an imprisonment up to seven years.
The FIR had said that the first accused used a fake bachelor’s degree certificate of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University and managed to get the post of junior consultant in KSITL with the help of the second and third accused. The accused cooperated with each other in cheating the organization, the FIR said. The case has been registered at Cantonment police station in the capital. The crime branch is also probing a case involving Swapna in connection with a false complaint while she was an employee of Air India SATS.