Jaipur : The special police team SOG took major action on Friday in the case of giving fake degrees in Rajasthan in exchange for money. The SOG team has arrested the founder, director and registrar of two private universities. After the arrest of these three, SOG said that all of them used to give fake degrees to people in exchange for 50 thousand to one lakh rupees. Due to which many people got jobs in different government departments of Rajasthan. The SOG team is now trying to reach the people who got jobs by interrogating the three arrested accused.
In fact, SOG has arrested Jogendra Singh, founder of OPJS University located in Rajgarh, Churu, Sarita Kadwasara, registrar of OPJS University and Jitendra Yadav, director of Sunrise University, on charges of distributing fake degrees. All three are accused of issuing a large number of fake degrees.
OPJS University used to run 18 courses with the help of 18 teachers
SOG DIG Paris Deshmukh said that these people have been arrested on the charge of issuing fake degrees. DIG said that OPJS University used to give fake degrees for different recruitment exams for Rs. 50 thousand to lakhs. Jogendra Singh has been accused of giving fake degrees earlier as well. The university had only 28 employees. Among them, 10 were non-teaching staff. The university was running 18 courses with the help of 18 teachers.
Fake degrees were used on a large scale in PTI recruitment exam
SOG DIG Paris Deshmukh further said that these fake degrees were used the most in the PTI recruitment exam. In this recruitment exam, 1300 candidates said that they had a university PTI degree. Whereas till then the university was authorized to give admission to only 500 candidates in PTI. There is a mismatch in the records of 1200 candidates in the PTI recruitment exam. Now all of them are on the radar. More than 200 people are in jobs, who got jobs by giving fake degrees. Now departmental action will be taken against them.
The university used to refuse verification if it did not get the desired amount
Investigation has revealed that the university first used to take money for issuing roll numbers to candidates. Then when the results were declared, it used to demand lakhs of rupees for the degree. If a candidate did not pay the demanded amount, the university used to deny that he was a student at the time of verification. After paying the money, the candidate’s verification was done.
