A 52-year-old was arrested for producing fake documents and forging the signature of a cancer victim to illegally take over a Bhandup school run for poor children. The accused identified as Ashok Singh was arrested by the city economic offences wing, a Times of India report read. A resident of Bhandup, Singh was arrested based on an FIR registered back in 2016.

John Iradayaraj a software engineer working in Europe, had accused Singh of illegally taking four rooms of Bhandup Citizens' Education Society, which ran an English medium unaided school. The school was started by John's mother Margarette Marie in 1996 in a single chawl room, which was later expanded to over eight rooms. The net worth of the property is Rs 4 crore, the report said.