Haryana: Portal of district hospital hacked, 43 fake birth certificates issued

Therefore, a case was registered under sections 120-B, 420, 467, 468 and 471 in Yamunanagar City and Sadar police stations. In addition, two criminal cases have been filed against an unknown accused by the authorities.

Although this is not the first time that Haryana has registered a case over the issuance of fake birth certificates. Two years ago, around 54 fake birth certificates were found to have been issued in the district.

In his complaint to the police, Dr Rajesh Kumar, deputy civil surgeon, said, “CRS IDs were hacked at the district civil hospital, and 43 fake birth certificates and one fake death certificate were found to be issued during an internal probe in August 2021. In December 2021, 54 fake birth certificates were found to have been issued.”

While investigating the case, it was found that the certificates were not only issued to the people of Yamunanagar district but also to districts of Panipat, Faridabad, Gurugram, Palwal, Sonipat and others, HT reports.

Medical dialogues team had earlier reported that the Haryana Government issued an advisory to "beware of birth and death certificates being generated from fake websites." A call was given to the general public not to follow the instructions given on social media sites like YouTube. Do not get any birth-death certificate made by paying money online by contacting phone numbers etc. as there are high chances of these being fake.

Giving information in this regard, a spokesperson of the Health Department said that in the last few months, it has come to the notice that some anti-social persons are involved in the work of making birth-death certificates by creating fake websites.

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