AURANGABAD: City police have booked a contractor on charges of forging a work done certificate to bag a contract worth over Rs 84 lakh from the water supplies department of Aurangabad zilla parishad.
Based on the complaint lodged by ZP water supply department’s deputy engineer Ashok Ghuge, Kranti Chowk police have booked the contractor on charges of cheating and forgery.
Authorities said in an attempt to bag the work, the suspect contractor obtained a work done certificate that was carried out in Hingoli by some other contractor and forged the documents to make it appear that work was done by him.
Senior inspector Ganpat Darade said the suspect using the forged documents bagged a class-II contractor license and participated in the bidding process for tenders floated . Police said the suspect has not been arrested and the process to round him up has been initiated.