Sigra Police Arrest Man Over Alleged ₹6 Lakh Fake BHU Assistant Professor Letter

Sigra police arrested Chandramani Sharma, 32, of the Sarainandan–Bhelupur belt and currently living in Anand Nagar, Kandwa, in connection with an alleged ₹6 lakh fraud built around a fake Banaras Hindu University Assistant Professor appointment letter dated 31 October 2023, station house officer Shivakant Mishra said in briefings that reached this desk. The arrest was effected at an office on Sonia Road. A court-directed first information report, later numbered Sigra Crime 0338/2026, cites provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita including sections 318(4), 352, 336(3), 338 and 340(2).

All recruitment-fraud claims in this pack are allegations pending investigation and trial. The desk does not treat the appointment letter as proven forged beyond what police have alleged, and it does not name the complainant’s full identifying particulars beyond what is required to explain the case type. Co-accused Vinod Gupta was described in some reports as absconding; that status is attributed to those police accounts and may change with further arrests.

The court-directed FIR origin — orders that reached Sigra in July 2026 — matters for process. It means the case did not begin only as a same-week police pick-up; a judicial direction preceded the numbered crime entry that now anchors the arrest. Sharma’s production and further interrogation will decide how the ₹6 lakh allegation and the October 2023 letter are documented for charge sheets.

Fake university appointment letters are a recurring fraud pattern because teaching posts carry salary prestige and because victims may pay large advances before verification catches up. An Assistant Professor letter dated 31 October 2023, if forged as alleged, would have been old enough by mid-2026 for the complainant to discover the gap between paper and campus reality. Police say the money involved is about ₹6 lakh; that figure remains part of the allegation ledger.

SO Shivakant Mishra’s named role keeps the Sigra station accountable for the Sonia Road arrest. Readers tracking higher-education fraud in Varanasi should treat BHU only as the institution named on the disputed letter, not as a party accused in this FIR. Banaras Hindu University’s own recruitment machinery is not on trial in Crime 0338/2026; the alleged fake document is.

Until a charge sheet and court findings settle the sections invoked, the locked facts are the arrest of Chandramani Sharma, the alleged ₹6 lakh fake Assistant Professor appointment letter dated 31 October 2023, the court-directed Crime 0338/2026 at Sigra, and the police note that co-accused Vinod Gupta was still being sought. Those are procedure facts, not a finished verdict on guilt.
Verification culture is the long-term defence against appointment-letter fraud. Candidates and families who pay large sums before checking with the university’s own recruitment office absorb the loss when paper outruns reality. Sigra’s arrest, if the allegations are proved, will be one more data point in that pattern — but proof still belongs to the charge sheet and the court, not to the arrest-day headline alone.