Fake certificate racket busted

By Our Staff Reporter

CUDDAPAH, APRIL 28. A fake certificate racket was busted with the arrest of an Anglo-Indian, Glenn Briggs (27), and his accomplice, Yerikala Kishore, in Siddhavatam by the police on Thursday night.

Briggs, who failed in B.Com., has been allegedly selling fake pass certificates since 1992 to gullible youth and operated from Guntakal in Anantapur district. He was selling fake pass certificates for SSC, Intermediate and graduation, B.Ed. and D.Pharmacy, according to the Siddhavatam Sub-Inspector, Mr. Ramakrishnudu. The duo was nabbed while explaining about the certificates to an unsuspecting customer near a school in SKR Nagar in Siddhavatam, the SI stated.

Several fake pass certificates and rubber stamps in the name of the Anantapur District Educational Officer, Controller of Examinations, Hyderabad, several mandal revenue officers and magistrates, some schools and junior colleges in Cuddapah district were seized from them. Briggs set up St. Mary's Spoken English and Grammar Institute and was doing business in fake pass certificates, the SI said. The building which appears to be a tiled house from outside had an expensively furnished modern house inside.

It was thoroughly searched in Guntakal and over 50 rubber stamps, computerised forms, certificates in the name of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Dharwad and Gulbarga Universities, were seized. Briggs had also made preparations for taking up printing of fake currency notes, the SI added.

Briggs' father was a retired railway employee and his mother was a retired railway high school headmistress, Mr. Ramakrishnudu stated.

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