Delhi Police arrests two men for forging ministries' letters
The Hindu
Two men were arrested by Delhi Police for allegedly duping people with fake appointment letters of government bodies
Two men were arrested for allegedly duping people with fake appointment letters of government bodies, including central ministries, police said on Saturday.
Khatri Iqbal Ahamad, 50, a resident of Narmada district in Gujarat, and Himanshu Pandey, 35, a resident of Kushi Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh, duped high-profile individuals on the pretext of appointing them to the board of the National Medical Commission, they said.
According to police, the matter was exposed when Chandan Kumar, an Under Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), lodged a complaint about someone forging a letter in the ministry's name.
The complaint carried a copy of an order purportedly issued by the MoHFW.
The letter stated that the tenure of NMC Chairman Suresh Chandra Sharma has ended in January and Dr Suresh K Patel, a member of Gujarat Medical Council, is appointed as the new chairman of NMC and he can take his charge from April 3 to 10, police said.
Kumar told police that the file number mentioned in the above letter purported to have been issued from this ministry did not exist and no such order had been issued by the MoHFW.
The letter was a fake, he said, according to a senior police officer.
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