On Tuesday, Bengaluru police arrested Mazhar Khan, a 40-year-old man from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, in connection with a case involving a forged BHMS degree issued by a Karnataka-based education institute. Khan, who runs an educational institute in the Daulatabad area of Sambhajinagar, was identified as a key player in the crime. He is also wanted by the Uttar Pradesh (UP) police for allegedly issuing multiple forged degrees to lawyers practicing across the country.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone-I) Nitin Bagate stated that the Bengaluru police reached out for assistance in apprehending Khan and his wife in relation to the case filed in Karnataka. Police teams successfully traced Khan’s location and handed him over to the Bengaluru authorities on Tuesday. Khan was then presented before a Bengaluru court, which remanded him to police custody until February 28.
The case dates back to January 14, when an FIR for cheating and forgery was filed against Khan and his wife. The alleged crime occurred between March 1, 2021, and August 2022. A law practitioner from Sambhajinagar, Zeba Khan, raised concerns about Khan’s wife practicing as a BHMS professional using a forged degree from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bengaluru. Upon investigation, the university confirmed that the degree documents were fake, leading to the filing of a formal complaint.
Further investigation revealed that Khan’s fraudulent activities were not limited to Karnataka. The UP police also filed an FIR against him and his wife in August 2024 in Jaunpur. They discovered that a series of forged degrees had been printed and distributed from Sambhajinagar, implicating Khan in a larger educational fraud operation. Khan faces serious charges under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code, including cheating, impersonation, and forgery.
