Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore 

Mangalore, Apr 26: 'I will drag you to court for misplacing my original degree marks card,' threatened I K Gayathri, a Bangalore-based insurance advisor to her superiors, a private insurance company over reported bungling-up over her original marks card.

Gayathri, while talking to media persons here on Friday April 25 giving details of the alleged fraud, informed that while enrolling as an insurance advisor with Birla Sunlife Insurance Company Ltd (BSICL), she had submitted all relevant documents including her original degree marks card.

However, once the formalities concluded, when she requested for her original marks card to be returned, the staff at the company responded by sending her documents attached with the marks card of another person. Gayatri said that initially she assumed the lapse was a case of mistaken identity, however a closer examination and analysis of the facts at hand clearly indicated that the certificate issued in the name of K M Gayathri by the Calicut University in 1983 was a fake one.

After this, her repeated pleas to return her marks card were in total vain, with the staff unable to explain how a forged marks card had taken the place of her original marks card. When the issue reached a dead end, Gayathri decided to take the matter to the press. At the meet she urged the government to institute a high level enquiry to unearth this racket of replacing original marks card with forged ones.   

In the course of the press meet she queried, 'You will get a duplicate certificate on submitting an application to the University. But the issue here is how come forged marks cards are replacing the original marks cards.' The city-based insurance company  BSICL has not yet responded to the allegations made by the insurance agent.