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Fake it to the limit…one more time

June 30, 2009 posted by indiatime |

You know I’ve always been a dreamer
(spent my life running ’round)
And it’s so hard to change
(Can’t seem to settle down)…

So put me on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time

- The Eagles (One of These Nights)

Fake employees, fake degrees and fake car registrations. And that’s just today.

1. 45,000 fake employees in Delhi’s local government
A biometric identification initiative inside Delhi’s local government, has unearthed a novel scam of huge proportions. About 45000 of Delhi’s local government employees may not exist at all. Tens of thousands of government employees in the sanitation and horticulture departments may have been existing on paper alone, it has now been revealed. For a long long time however, someone’s been drawing the salaries for these employees.

2. Nagpur University giving fake degrees
A principal of a local college affiliated with Nagpur University and a few of his accomplices are said to have been the masterminds of a scam, promising the students the easiest route to their degrees. Principal Rajendra Gore and his friends, advertised BPEd (Bachelor of Physical Education) degrees in local and out-of-state newspapers, in exchange of money and without having to take any examinations. Students became angry and upset when they found out that the newspaper advertisements were fake.

3. India’s own Jerry Lundegaard caught in fake car registration scam
Those who have seen the movie Fargo, will remember the character of Jerry Lundegaard, the unscrupulous car dealer who can’t do a thing right. Hyderabad’s Lakshma Reddy turned out to be a real life Lundegaard, and tried to get out of his debts by selling used cars with fake registrations, cheating financial agencies as well as his customers. When stopped by the police, Reddy himself was driving a vehicle with fake registration plates.


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  3. amba on February 10, 2010 4:22 pm

    This is now becoming a global indian / international feature, lack of integrity is coming in the news, story after story. Even though Narayana Murthy said about Satyam scam as a one off incident, things like that can happen when auditors have done their job pretty much to their best ability. Still, scams and frauds have happened. It gives such a bad impression that nobody will believe in India. Once we have this Nagpur university fake degree exposed even CEO with MBA or even PhD from Nagpur University will be in bad light. Very sad that we Indians are defeating our own potential.

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