Fake Birth And Death Certificate Racket Caught In Hyderabad

Five arrested in this case!

In Hyderabad, the SR Nagar Police has arrested five people who were running a birth and death certificate racket by submitting forged and fabricated documents to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) office.

The arrested accused include a data entry operator and the Health Assistant Officer of Circle Number 7 of GHMC.

Both the accused worked with the GHMC and worked on data entry of the birth and death certificates. These are forwarded from the CSC (Citizen Service Centre) after approval by the health assistant officer. The gang used to collect Rs 1,300 from each applicant for the forged certificate.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), West Zone, Joel Davis, elaborated on the steps to obtain a birth and death certificate.

“In general, to issue a certificate we have to follow the procedure of verifying both records, the discharge summary from the Hospital and the discharge summary of the person who applied for the certificate. The Health Assistant Officer will verify both records and make an entry into the register,” he said.

DCP explained the process that, "Then data entries are made in the system. AMOH will give digital signature approval for the certificate and the certificate will automatically be uploaded to GHMC website, which the applicant can download from Mee-Seva centres.”

Usually, the process takes around 15 days to reach the certificates from CSC to GHMC office.

However, to earn easy and quick money, both the accused, along with the other accused who was an agent, hatched a plan to give the certificates in one day to the needy customers as per their required birthdate, which was not correct, without approaching CSC.