LUCKNOW, May 21 -- Several individuals from west UP and Haryana who may have got jobs using marksheets and degrees issued by Hapur's Monad University have come under the scanner after the 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. A senior STF official said that a complaint regarding a candidate using a fake PhD degree issued by the 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 job, but the probe uncovered a major racket involving university authorities," he said. According to a police official from Hapur, the university in question was set up during the Bahujan Samaj Party regime in the state and had been operational for the past 15 years. He said the extent of the forgery could be gauged from the fact that the university offers multiple courses, and that the possibility of fake marksheets and degrees used by many to get jobs could not be ruled out. Earlier on May 17, the UP STF exposed this racket after recovering 1,372 marksheets and degrees as well as 262 fake provisional and migration certificates from the said university campus in Pilkhuwa area of Hapur. University chairman Vijendra Singh Hooda was among 10 officials who were arrested after their involvement was confirmed in the illegal practice of selling fake marksheets and degrees. Others arrested included pro-chancellor Nitin Kumar Singh, PA to university chairman Mukesh Thakur, Gaurav Sharma and Vipul Talyan (two employees of verification department), Imran Ahmad (admission director), Anil Batra (accountant), Sandeep Sherawat, Kuldeep, and Sunny Kashyap. Meanwhile, the UP STF arrested another accused, identified as Rajesh Kumar from Faridabad in Haryana, on Tuesday. Kumar is the accomplice of Sandeep Sehrawat, who was arrested earlier on May 18, an STF official said. He said interrogation revealed that university authorities used to get fake documents printed from Sehrawat. An STF official said that Monad Universitwy had been allegedly involved in such practices for the past several years and its chairman Vijendra Singh Hooda even tried to get political patronage as he contested the 2024 LS poll from Bijnor seat, but lost after his name surfaced in the multi-crore bike bot scam in 2017....