The Narsingi police addressing the media in Hyderabad on Sunday.
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The Narsingi police have arrested two more accused, including the mastermind, in a fake Government Order (G.O.) racket linked to an attempt to illegally acquire valuable government land in Gandipet through forged official records and fabricated government documents.The arrested persons have been identified as Veladi Radhakrishna, 53, listed as accused number 9 and Gyara Praveen Kumar, 34, his driver and accused number 10. Their arrest comes after three other accused from Gandipet village were previously taken into custody in connection with the fraud.The case pertains to a conspiracy to encroach upon government poramboke land in survey number 18 of Gandipet village by creating forged Government Orders, fabricated records of the Commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA), fake No Objection Certificates (NOCs) and other counterfeit official documents.According to investigators, Radhakrishna had worked as an outsourcing employee in the Information Technology and Communication Department of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Secretariat between 2006 and 2009. During this period, he gained familiarity with government procedures and administrative systems.Police said that after leaving his job, he began presenting himself as a Deputy Collector and advocate, promising to secure government jobs, land regularisation orders, pattadar passbooks, succession proceedings and various government permissions for a fee.Investigators found that his involvement in fraud dates back more than a decade. In 2013, he collected ₹30 lakh from unemployed youth by promising government jobs. When the promised jobs did not materialise, a cheating case was registered against him at Karimnagar II Town police station.Police records show that several other cheating and forgery cases were subsequently registered against him across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
