Fake marksheets: Allahabad HC issues directives to UP govt

Updated on: Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Noting the tendency of securing jobs on the basis of forged marksheets and certificates in Uttar Pradesh has assumed alarming proportions, the Allahabad High Court has directed the state police and the education department to investigate and prosecute all the offenders.

A pision bench, comprising justices Amar Saran and Kalimullah Khan, observed "it is high time that this court came down with a very heavy hand to curb such unethical, immoral and illegal practices."

It directed the state's Director General of Police to get all cases of this nature investigated under strict monitoring of concerned district police chiefs and asked the education secretary to "ensure prosecution of all such offenders as well as government officials who may collaborate in such scams".

The order was passed on October 11.

The order came on a petition filed by two teachers against whom FIRs have been lodged for having secured admission to Basic Training Course (BTC) on the basis of forged marksheets and certificates.

"If persons who have got admissions in BTC course for the purpose of securing jobs in the educational sector have resorted to such malpractices, we can only expect they will pay little attention to educating students," the Bench said.

"They will regularly absent themselves from going to the schools and to their jobs and also deny meritorious persons their due right for employment.

"This will be disastrous for the future of the nation," it said.

Staying the arrests of petitioners till the next date of hearing on November two, the court said "we will like the investigating officers in both the cases to be present in the court along with the case diaries".

Fake marksheets: Allahabad HC issues directives to UP govt

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