The Uttar Pradesh police have registered an FIR against a woman for securing a job in the basic education department by allegedly concealing her Pakistani nationality, news agency PTI reported on Thursday,
citing officials.
According to the police, the case was registered at the Azim Nagar police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur, based on a complaint filed by the Basic Education Department, following an internal enquiry which revealed that Mahira Akhtar, aka Farzana, had obtained employment using forged documents.
Additional Superintendent of Police Anurag Singh said that the accused had been working as a teacher at a primary school in the Kumhariya Village.
An FIR has been registered under sections 318(4), 336, 338 and 340 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for cheating and forgery, he stated.
According to the police, the woman allegedly bagged a job at the primary school using a fake residential certificate. They revealed that she had married a Pakistani national in 1979 and subsequently acquired Pakistani citizenship.
Accused suspended, dismissed from service
According to the PTI report, citing officials, she allegedly returned to India after her divorce and got married to a local man around 1985.
Around the same time, she secured a job in the Basic Education Department by acquiring forged documents and projecting herself as an Indian citizen.
After the revelation of her Pakistani citizenship, the department has suspended her and dismissed her from service. Meanwhile, a further probe is underway into the matter.
