LUCKNOW, May 21 -- Several individuals from west U.P. and Haryana who may have got jobs using marksheets and degrees issued by Hapur's Monad University have come under the scanner after the Special Task Force (STF) busted a gang preparing fake documents, senior police officials said on Tuesday.

Monad University chairman Vijendra Singh Hooda and nine other officials were arrested following a late-night raid at the university on May 17.

Sharing details, a senior STF official said that a complaint regarding a candidate using a fake PhD degree issued by Monad University to get a job in another university in Haryana blew the lid off this racket operational for over a decade.

"Initial tip-off was regarding the use of fake degree to procure j...