Gurugram birth-death registrar’s ID hacked, 14 fake certificates issued

Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, June 24

The official account of birth and death Registrar, Gurugram, has been hacked and 14 fake certificates have allegedly been made.

This came to light during investigation of issuance of a fake death certificate of a living doctor. The authorities now suspect that a major insurance scam is being run in the city.

According to senior officials of the Health Department, 14 fake certificates were issued from February till today. Out of these, 13 were from Sohna block and one from Bhondsi block.

Multilevel scam feared

The threat of a multilevel scam came to the fore yesterday when fraudsters tried to claim the insurance money of director of Manav Rachna educational institute Dr Prashant Bhalla using his fake death certificate.

For all these certificates, there is no data available with the department. The department has now changed the e-mail id and password and has also informed MC Gurugram.

“We have alerted all the authorities concerned about the hacking. We have also filed a police complaint,” said CMO Dr Virender Yadav.

The threat of a multilevel scam came to the fore yesterday when fraudsters tried to claim the insurance money of director of Manav Rachna educational institute Dr Prashant Bhalla using his fake death certificate.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the fraudsters first hacked the ID of district registrar and then stole the QR code of death certificates issued last year. After scanning the QR code, they changed the name and address and issued the certificates.

The anomaly was highlighted by many people who visited common service centres and found fraud registrations on QR codes of their certificates.

Meanwhile, a local resident has moved MC, Gurugram, claiming that a senior MCG official had burnt some official papers on the stairs of his society. The complainant, in his letter addressed to MCG Commissioner, said that he had highlighted the issue with former Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh but no action was taken. “I have half torn and burnt papers and I suspect that it may be linked to this scam,” the complainant told The Tribune.

MCG commissioner Mukesh Kumar Ahuja said that they are looking into the matter and the complaint.