India, Feb. 15 -- The Raigad police have exposed a death certificate fraud in Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and arrested two employees. The accused issued the death certificate of a Puneite to facilitate sale of his property at Shrivardhan in Raigad district two to three times.

The two accused, contract employees from the birth and death office, confessed to the fraud for financial benefit.

Ramkumar Agarwal from Camp filed a police complaint when he found that his one acre property at Shrivardhan in Konkan was sold to another person. Following the police inquiry, PMC gave a written reply that the office has not received an application for issuing a death certificate in the name of Agarwal and did not issue such a document. Further pr...