- Defendant
- Aryan Anand
- Reddit role
- user
- Charge
- Forgery and theft of services
- Jurisdiction
- Northampton County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania
- Date
- 2024-06
- Sentence
- No incarceration; expulsion and removal from the United States
Summary
Aryan Anand, an international student, gained admission and a full scholarship to Lehigh University using fabricated transcripts, falsified financial documents, and a forged death certificate. He then published an anonymous confessional post on Reddit detailing the fraud. A subreddit moderator investigated, noticed the account followed only the university, and alerted the institution, prompting charges. He pleaded guilty to forgery and was expelled and removed from the United States rather than incarcerated.