Andhra Pradesh CID arrests five people for forging CMO officials' digital signs to illegally make money

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Andhra Pradesh CID has arrested five people for allegedly misusing the digital signatures of senior officials in the Chief Minister Office's to create fake Chief Minister Petitions (CMP) and illegally making money through this process. The CID took Kanamarla Srinu, Gutthula Sitaramayya, Nalajala Sai Ram, Bhukya Chaitanya Naik and Abdul Razzak into custody, police said on Saturday. «For some time, the digital signatures of CMO officials have been used to generate CMPs. Based on a complaint from the CMO officials, we have registered a case,» said a CID official in a press release. Incidentally, the accused persons were using the e-office login username and password of CMO secretaries to create CMPs by using requests of MLAs and MPs without the authorisation of the officials concerned and sending them across to various departments for implementation. Police identified Srinu to be the prime accused in this case who used to work in officer Revu Muthyala Raju's office as a junior employee.

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Deploying the knowledge he had gained on how to use the e-office, Srinu initially used it for his monetary benefit by creating forged CMPs and sending them across to any department he wanted. Further, he connived with Sai Ram, Sitaramayya, Naik and Razzak, who were working under different senior officials to form a gang, take petitioners' requests along with MLA