President's letterhead forged to promote university: FIR
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New Delhi: The Special Cell of Delhi Police found that a man has allegedly forged the President of India's letterhead to promote his university. This has come to the cell's notice while it was monitoring social media, IANS reported.
According to an FIR accessed by IANS, the person who forged the letterhead is named Amardeep Singh. The police found two phone numbers, a website link -- www.vikramshilauniversity.com -- and the address mentioned on the letterhead in the matter.
"It is submitted that during social media monitoring, it was found that a person named Amardeep Singh used the letterhead of the Hon'ble President of India under his own signature to inform people that the Vikramshila University is going to be inaugurated shortly," the FIR read. A notice was sent asking for details of the mentioned website, the FIR stated.
Sections 465 (Punishment for forgery), 468 (Forgery for the purpose of cheating), and 471 (Using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code have been charged in the FIR registered at the Special Cell police station regarding the case.
According to the website www.vikramshilauniversity.com, the university is India's first digital university. The site includes a message from its founder and CEO, Amardeep Singh. It claims to offer courses on nuclear science & technology, nanotechnology, geoinformatics, remote sensing etc., as graduate programmes.