2 held for issuing fake birth, death certificates in Karnal

Tribune News Service

Karnal, November 3

A team of Cyber Crime Police Station, Karnal Range, arrested two siblings from Bihar for allegedly issuing birth and death certificates by hacking the official website of Health Department.

The accused have been identified as Santosh and Mantosh of Samastipur, Bihar. They were arrested from their village and the police have seized two laptops, two mobile phones, one CPU and one ATM card. During interrogation, it was revealed around 800 fake birth and death certificates had been issued by the accused by hacking the government website in Haryana, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and other states, said Kamaldeep Rana, in charge, Cyber Crime Police Station.

“The Health Department complained that the e-mail and password of the birth and certificate registration unit of the District Civil Hospital had been hacked by some unknown persons and fake certificates were being issued by uploading signature.