Soumittra S Bose, TNN, Oct 15, 2010
NAGPUR: The woman constable had worked in the police department for more than 16 years and no one knew she had used a fake marksheet to gain entry. It may never have come to fore, but for her estranged husband who made the secret known to the department that then took action.
Accused Sunita Kavarte, 37, was arrested by Gittikhadan police on Thursday for allegedly tampering her original SSC exam marksheet and submitting it for facilitating her recruitment in the police department in February 1994. Sunita, attached to police headquarters, had also allegedly submitted fake school leaving certificate.
Police feel Sunita appears to have also tampered her age record as the date of birth in the document had signs of being overwritten. She is likely to be placed under suspension, said a source.
Sunita had failed in the secondary school certificate (SSC) in 1988 having appeared from Swami Vivekananda Vidyalaya in Deolapar in Ramtek taluka. The original marksheet that police now have revealed that Sunita had obtained only 48 marks. She had actually obtained seven in English and two in Mathematics.
Police said that Sunita seemed to have added '1' before 48 to make it 148 in total, three before seven to show she had obtained 37 and six before 2 in mathematics to project it as 62. During questioning, Sunita claimed it was her mother who had tampered with the document. Sunita's mother had passed away in 2002.
In fact, this was the second time that the department pulled up Sunita. In 2008, her increment was stopped after it was found out that she had obtained a financial help of Rs 4,000 from police welfare fund citing her mother's death, an event that had taken place around six years before she made the application.
The latest trouble for Sunita came after her former husband Faiz Mohammed, who is complainant in the case, approached the department to act against her when they separated four months back. Police said Faiz, who claims to be a scribe, was himself booked by Tehsil police in the past after Sunita complained of harassment against him.
Sources said that Sunita and Faiz got married in 2003 and have a son (5). They used to reside at police quarters in Tehsil until recently when Sunita shifted to Pachpaoli police quarters where she was staying with her father.
Faiz tried to seek information from department using RTI Act and also wrote to the education board trying to unearth facts against Sunita.
"We received the evidence from the complainant and our effort brought out some more facts that helped us to book the constable," said senior inspector NR Dambelkar of Gittikhadan police station.
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