Vadodara: A man from Maharashtra, running an institution for issuing fake marksheets of Class X and XII, was arrested on Saturday.
Accused Dileep Mohite, a resident of Dhulia, had established Maharashtra Board of Higher Secondary (MBHS) in 2016 and has so far given fake marksheets to thousands of students, many of whom are in Vadodara. Mohite’s name was revealed while police were investigating the bogus marksheet scam it stumbled upon on November 6.
Police were probing a betting scam on cricket matches when it found photos of fakemark sheets in an accused’s mobile phone.
While following the trail of marksheets police reached till Jigar Gogra, a resident of Refinery Road. Gogra had sent the photos of the marksheets to the betting accused. On digging out more about MBHS, cops found out that it is an institution which only provides marksheets to students through its agents for an amount ranging from Rs 3,500 to Rs 4,000. It had appointed four agents in Vadodara.
Cops believe that Mohite has given certificates to over 5,000 students who have taken admission in several universities including MS University and have even sought jobs or gone abroad for higher education.
“We are compiling a database of the students who were given the fake marksheets. An exact figure can be known only after we have all the data,” said a police official.