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Preparing fake degrees and certificates for those seeking government jobs and admissions in schools and colleges, the gang made tall claims of completing their work in five minutes. Superintendent of police (SP), city, Abhinandan Singh, said, “The three accused were identified as Amit (27), a resident of Veerpur Makruka village under Bhojipura police station; Ravindra Pratap Singh (29), a native of Ganeshnagar under Shubhashnagar police station; and Baburam Gangwar (32) of Madinath under Shubhashnagar police station. After interrogating Amit, we came to know that the gang was involved in preparing fake school and college degrees. The police also recovered nine stamps, a coloured printer, a keyboard, a laptop, four fake TCs and a death certificate from the location.

The management of KR Mangalam University on Sohna Road filed a police complaint, accusing its own dean, who is also a professor at its school of engineering and technology, of fraudulently securing his job using a fake degree. According to the complaint filed by University registrar Parveen Mahajan, the accused, Ram Kinkar Pandey of Greater Noida, was employed as dean and professor of the University’s school of engineering and technology with effect from January 22, 2018, and was paid Rs 1.7 lakh as monthly salary. “Subsequently, to ascertain the authenticity of his educational documents, the University had written to the director of Moti Lal Nehru Institute of Technology, Allahabad, UP, from where he had claimed to have received his MTech degree, and the controller of examination, Lucknow University, from where he had claimed to have received his Ph. D. Moti Lal Nehru Institute of Technology, on February 22, and Lucknow University, on March 3, wrote back saying the MTech and Ph. D certificates produced by employee were both forged. A parallel inquiry with his previous employer, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, revealed that Pandey’s service had been terminated when the employers had found that his BTech, MTech and Ph. D certificates are all forged.

I realised I had made a mistake by sharing my contact details with the person,” says Roshini. Roshini says she has also come across scamster-companies in the gig economy; and here, the risk of not getting paid for the work one has done is high. There are certain platforms that do due diligence and filter out fly-by-night operators and list only genuine jobs; but having a listing on these platforms is expensive, says Roshini. Due to the lack of proper regulation, the gig economy offers both the employer and the gig worker, many challenges to deal with. A study by Noble House, a human resource talent marketplace, found that 49% of the companies hesitate to hire a gig worker as they are not assured of the quality of the resource. Garg suggests that to avoid the risk of not getting paid, a gig worker can seek some payment at the beginning of the work, and subsequently, seek that small amounts be released from time to time.

A 56-year-old class four employee of a government hospital in south Mumbai was arrested by Agripada police on Saturday for allegedly cheating the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for over 30 years by submitting a forged school leaving certificate in order to obtain the government job in 1984. After receiving the letter, the complainant, Chandrakant Pandurang Pawar, the hospital’s medical superintendent, wrote to the government on January 19 informing them of Vaidya’s forgery. Pawar gave a written complaint to the public health department, claiming that Vaidya had submitted a forged document in 1984 when he applied for a job at the hospital and had been enjoying all the perks given to government employees, since 1988 when he was given the post. Police are now trying to find out the source from where Vaidya had obtained the forged certificate and whether government officials were involved in the fraud as the accused’s credentials should have been verified at the time of his employment in 1988.