Udupi: PU certificates of 13 appointed for govt jobs found to be fake

Umesh Marpalli
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi

Udupi, Jul 5: The district administration has busted a forgery case wherein 13 persons who applied for the jobs of village accountants in the district were found to have submitted fake PUC certificates.

Addressing a press meet here on Friday July 5, deputy commissioner Dr M T Reju said that out of the 24 persons who applied for the posts, 13 had forged their PUC certificates to falsely claim their qualification for the job. Out of these, 8 had joined training, and the rest five had been selected but not joined.

A person needs to pass PUC or 10 2 or equivalent exam to qualify for the post, but it was found that the persons who had forged their certificates had actually failed.

After the persons who were selected had joined probationary training at the taluk office, it was discovered that they did not know Kannada enough and lacked basic knowledge required for the post. When suspicion arose, their PUC marks cards were sent to the PU Board for verification, and it was ascertained that they had in fact forged the certificates.

Venkatesha M from Devanahalli, Bangalore, appointed at Kundapur, Basavaraj S P from Belur, Hassan, appointed at Aloor, Raghavendra P from Pandavapur, Mandya, appointed at Hermunde, Karkala, Kumar K from Honnavali, Davangere, appointed at Kantavar, Karkala, Laxminarayana K M from Chikkaballapur, appointed at Jepthi in Kundapur, Jayalaxmi S from Uchila-Someshawar in Mangalore, appointed at Udyavar, Lohitashwa N K from Channarayapatna, Hassan, appointed at Andaru, Karkala and Nagaraj G from Chikkaballapur, appointed at Molahalli in Kundapur, are the persons who reportedly forged their certificates.

The five who had been selected but were yet to join training are Harish K V from Shikaripura, Shimoga, Pavitra B C from Honnavali, Davangere, Asha V S from Honnavali, Davangere, Dinesh Kumar C from Soraba, Shimoga, Revanna Gowda G T from Ashoknagar, Shimoga, and Vasanth Kumar from Turuvekere, Tumkur.

While action has been initiated against the eight who joined training, the other five will be dealt with soon, the DC said. The application for the job had to be submitted online. Sources said that similar cases have been reported in other parts of the state as well.

As per a complaint lodged by the tahsildar, cases have been registered against the 8 persons under sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465, 466 (forgery of record of court or of public register, etc), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the IPC. They have been dismissed from duty.