Advocate's clerk held in stamp paper scam

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The police team probing the stamp paper forgery case have taken into custody an advocate's clerk on Tuesday. The arrested has been identified as Vijayan of Pangappara near Kariavattom in the city. However, the police have not recorded the arrest till Tuesday night.
According to Shanghumugham assistant commissioner K S Vimal Kumar, Vijayan was taken into custody from the residence of one of his friends at Moovattupuzha in Ernakulam, following a tip off.Vijayan has been working as the clerk of K S Sreedharan Nair, who is indicted as the prime accused in the first information report submitted by the police a few days ago.
Vijayan has also been a close acquaintance of advocates V R Rajmohan and B Baburaj, who had allegedly presented forged stamp papers before the sub court here for bond execution. It was after this, more forged stamp papers were detected at various courts in the district.
Vimal Kumar hinted that Vijayan might be arraigned as an accused in the case. "There are chances that Vijayan might have used Sreedharan Nair's seal to forge the stamp papers," said the officer.
Meanwhile, the assistant commissioner also said that the police was thinking of filing a fresh FIR, as more forged stamp papers were detected at courts in different centres, including Thiruvananthapuram and Neyyatinkara.
"The initial FIR was submitted on the basis of the forged documents detected in just two cases. Senior vendor K S Sreedharan Nair was arraigned as the first accused in the report. But now, the number of cases detected is nearing 200. Hence we have to examine those stamp papers too and check whether the same person is behind all the frauds," said the officer.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday more forged judicial stamp papers were detected at the sub courts here. Stamp papers worth Rs 54,000 were found to have submitted in as many as seven cases that were settled. The police are waiting for the court authorities to hand over the rest of the detected stamp papers.
The arrested has been identified as Vijayan of Pangappara near Kariavattom in the city.