Alappuzha: Last night the police arrested Sanju Sasidharan, who forged degree certificate for former SFI leader, Nikhil Thomas. He not only made a single fake degree certificate for Nikhil but also forged five other fake certificates including mark-list, TC, migration certificate, provisional certificate etc for him.
Sanju Sasidharan is the owner of ‘Orion Edu Wing’ based at Palarivattom in Ernakulam, where the fake certificates were made. He was arrested last night from near his house at Palarivattom.
Sanju’s firm was closed down in 2022. He is also an accused in a Visa scam, in which he collected money from many people with promise of jobs in Malta. He was arrested last September on the complaint by an Angamaly resident. However, Sanju got out on bail and went into hiding.
A case against him is registered in Ernakulam North Police Station for collecting money for Visa from nine people.
Abin C Raj, who is second accused in the fake certificate case, had first approached Orion’s branch in Thiruvananthapuram, to arrange the fake certificates for Nikhil. It was during the Covid pandemic and the branch was closed down. He then went to Orion’s office in Ernakulam and got all the fake certificates forged for Nikhil.
It is believed that Nikhil wanted to join the MCom program only because he wanted to continue being an SFI leader. As he had failed in his BCom program he was not able to pursue further studies. This threatened his position in the student’s organization. Therefore, he forged his degree certificate and joined the MCom program at MSM College in Kayamkulam.
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