A Bihar man has been booked in Bhadohi for duplicating a West Bengal woman’s Aadhaar card, opening a bank account in her name, and cheating people of lakhs of rupees by handing out fake letters for admission to different medical colleges across the country, police said on Sunday (August 24, 2025).
The accused Rohit Ranjan alias Pankaj Kumar Sharma, originally a resident of Bihar’s Gaya district but has been staying at Suryawa in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi district, also bought a SIM card using the Aadhaar number of the woman, a labourer from West Bengal’s Nadia district, they said.
According to a senior police official, a case was registered against Mr. Rohit at Suryawa police station on Saturday (August 23, 2025), on the basis of a report sent from Haringhaat police station in Nadia in this regard.
The offence was committed between September 29 and November 16, 2023, he said.
The case was registered under Sections 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust), 419 (punishment for cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (punishment for forgery), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc) and 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and the IT Act.
The woman, Priya Mandal Sarkar (25), wife of Amit Mandal who is a mason, came to know about the incident when police arrived to interrogate her in a case of fraud.
Bhadohi Superintendent of Police Abhimanyu Manglik said that Mr. Rohit, claiming to be a member of the Medical Council Committee in New Delhi, duped a Suryawa youth named Gufran of ₹10 lakh by handing out fake allotment and admission letters for a Kolkata Medical College.
Similarly, another youth was conned of ₹8 lakh, Mr. Manglik said.
Published – August 25, 2025 02:54 am IST
