Ahmedabad: Two days after a man accused his friend of using his degrees to secure a job as Ahmedabad Metro AGM, the Detection of Crime Branch officials arrested Kapil Sharma, a 44-year-old resident of Safal Parisar in Bopal. They have charged him for forging a degree certificate and creating fake experience certificates to secure the job.
The complaint was filed by Pankaj Prasun Singh, a civil engineer originally from Sargasan, who now lives abroad. Singh told police that Sharma, a native of Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh, had approached him in 2011 with a proposal to float a construction firm — SKP Buildcon Pvt. Ltd — and offered to make Singh a director. Singh, who was working in Tajikistan at the time, agreed and handed over scanned copies of his BE degree from Bangalore University (earned in 1998), mark sheets, PAN card and ID proofs, trusting Sharma’s pitch.
But the partnership never took off. And Singh had no clue that his academic records had been cloned until seven years later. In 2018, Singh began to suspect foul play when former staffers at Sharma’s office filed RTI queries that unearthed his forged educational records being used by someone else. What he found was shocking: Sharma had allegedly used Singh’s degree details to generate a fake certificate in his own name and then submitted forged experience credentials to land the role of assistant general manager at Ahmedabad Metro.
Singh, determined to seek justice, finally approached the DCB and filed an FIR in 2024. Cops have arrested Sharma and booked him for forgery, cheating, criminal breach of trust, and using forged documents as genuine.