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5 held for presenting forged documents to US Consulate
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The city police on Wednesday arrested five persons for presenting forged documents to the US Consulate General in Hyderabad for securing B1 and B2 visas. The incident came to light after Sunera Technologies Managing Director M Sudheer Reddy lodged a complaint with the Begumpet police stating that on August 25 he had received a mail from the US Consulate General infor
- Incident comes to light following a complaint by a software company managing director
- Accused got letterheads of reputed companies printed and stamps made to secure visas
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Hyderabad: The city police on Wednesday arrested five persons for presenting forged documents to the US Consulate General in Hyderabad for securing B1 and B2 visas. The incident came to light after Sunera Technologies Managing Director M Sudheer Reddy lodged a complaint with the Begumpet police stating that on August 25 he had received a mail from the US Consulate General informing that 11 members of his staff had applied for B1 and B2 visa and asked him to verify the status of his staff.When Sudheer Reddy verified the list, he had found that seven persons in the list were not his staff and they had submitted documents with his forged signature. Based on his complaint, the Begumpet police registered a case under section 420, 468 and 471 of IPC and started investigation.
During the investigation, one Jyothi Raju Kumar was taken into custody. He was one of the persons who applied for the B1 visa using forged documents. She told the police that one Syed Ajmaluddin Mukaram Khadri alias Sohail of Tech Orbit Solutions in Khairatabad had provided help to her in submitting forged documents.
Further, accused Sohail, who was taken into custody, confessed that he had got letterheads printed and rubber stamps made, as if they were of renowned companies and individuals like I-Tel Minds, Software Invoice, Global ERP Solutions, B Srinivas Rao & Co (Charted Accountants), Dr V R K Womens Medical College, Data Source Technologies, Stratara Gen Bio,
TA Infra Projects Limited, Tech Script, Trans HR, ARA, Avalon Pharma, Tulip, CA (TP Rao), K Srinivasa Chary (CA), Seo Software Solutions, Luthern Church, Princess Dhurushawar Hospital, Wallan, Hyundai, Andura Embasical and Sunera Technologies Pvt Ltd, and forged the signatures of the Heads of the companies and used the documents to arrange visas to enable his clients to travel to the US.
Based on Sohail’s confession, the police arrested Gattu Nagaraju (39), insurance agent of HDFC Bank in Secunderabad, Santosh Chowhan (33), a tutor from Shahinyathgunj and Mohammed Abdul Shaker (26), an MBA student of MRM college in Ibrahimpatnam. They were produced before the court. They were remanded in judicial custody.
North Zone DCP N Prakash Reddy said that they found that several VISA consultancies were creating fake and forged documents to cheat the embassies and also the Indian government. A letter was also sent to the Indian Embassy in USA to take action on the persons helped by accused Sohail to go to the USA.
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