Times of India: Coimbatore: Friday, August 17, 2018.
As per the
Madras high court direction, the city police on Wednesday booked a suspended
junior engineer of Tirupur corporation for obtaining a job by submitting fake
diploma certificate.
The court gave
the direction based on a case by filed G Kanagaraj.
Kanagaraj
said, “When the civic body was functioning as municipality, V Chandrasekaran of
Krishna Nagar had joined as work inspector on contract basis before his posting
was confirmed. When there was a chance for promotion to JE, he applied for it,
but the application was rejected by the commissionerate of municipal
administration citing ‘he was educationally not qualified’ in July 2007.”
However, in
December 2007, Chandrasekaran submitted a fake diploma certificate from a
private polytechnic college in Pollachi. Without proper verification, the civic
body promoted him as JE when it was upgraded to corporation in January 2008.
As per
information obtained under the RTI Act, the polytechnic college where
Chandrasekaran had enrolled in the diploma course confirmed that the
certificate was fake. It was further revealed that Chandrasekaran had completed
the diploma course only in June 2008. The corporation has earlier placed him
under suspension, said the complaint.
Despite the
complaint was lodged in November last, no FIR was registered. So, Kanagaraj
moved the Madras high court, which recently directed the city police to
register the FIR. So, Chandrasekaran was booked under Section 420 of the IPC.
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