Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Nov 13: First information reports (FIR) have been filed against 23 assistant professors who got selected as assistant professors for government first grade colleges by submitting fake marks cards. The police have through notices sought their personal presence for interrogation.

Joint director in the city regional office of the department of collegiate education, R K Ramesh Babu, had complained about this cheating on November 10. These assistant professors face charges of fraud under section 420 of Indian Penal Code, creation of fake documents under 465 and copying signatures of authorities under 468.

Shivabasappa from Koppal, Harana Gowda and Panchaksharayya from Thomas College, A V Virupaksha from Ballari, Estar Sarina from Belagavi, Chetan Patil from Raichur, Gururaj Siddarama Godageri from Raichur, Firoze Ahmed Bhagwarn from Bagalkot, B Mahadevi from Bidar and Mithun from Kalaburagi are some of the candidates named in the FIR.

2,034 candidates had been selected on February 4 this year to fill vacant positions of assistant professors in government first grade colleges in the state. A committee headed by the commissioner of collegiate education had been formed to scrutinize the documents submitted by the candidates.

During the scrutiny, it came to light that 23 candidates had got selected by providing fake PhD and MPhil courses marks cards. Ramesh Babu, in his complaint, sought police action against the candidates who defrauded the department with the aim of bagging the jobs.