Nalgonda District Police have busted a major fraud involving the creation of a fake death certificate
On Sunday, police arrested 14 people, including Raju, his mother, other relatives, and employees of the municipal and medical and health departments. However, the fake death certificate showed him having died on May 28, 2025, just three days before his retirement, thereby making his son, Raju, eligible for compassionate appointment. Police said Raju allegedly hatched the conspiracy during his father’s 10th-day death rituals on Nov 26, 2025.
Two other accused – Rajashekar and Ravinder – are absconding, Nalgonda police said. Nalgonda superintendent of police, Sharath Chandra Pawar, said Venkateswarlu’s relatives Chamakuri Rajashekar, an administrative officer, and Chamakuri Ravinder, a health assistant at Kethepally PHC, allegedly coordinated with Shaligouraram PHC senior assistant Kancharla Jagannadha Reddy, Venkateswarlu’s wife Vasantha, son Raju and another relative, Rachakonda Venkateswarlu, to execute the plan. They have been booked under various sections of BNS, IT Act, Aadhaar Act, and Registration of Births and Deaths Act, and remanded in judicial custody. As part of the alleged scheme, the accused first arranged to have Venkateswarlu’s Aadhaar address changed through a MeeSeva centre operated by Panasa Chandrasekhar. The altered records were then allegedly used to obtain the fake death certificate.
However, before the accused, Chamakuri Raju, could grab the job, the fraud was exposed after Nalgonda municipal commissioner Vamsi Krishna noticed discrepancies in the records he had submitted and lodged a complaint, prompting an investigation.