Times of India: Nagpur: Friday,
September 27, 2013.
Three time
corporator Sumitra Jadhav of BJP had, allegedly, submitted fake caste
certificate during the 2012 civic polls revealed an RTI query. Jadhav had
successfully contested the last three civic polls. She had defeated her nearest
rival Mayawati Meshram of BSP by 2,000 votes to win from Prabhag number 66 (A),
a seat reserved for the SC category.
The falsehood
was revealed when Bholanath Narnaware, a resident of the locality, procured
copies of her school leaving certificate and caste certificate under Right To
Information Act.
The documents
revealed that Jadhav, whose maiden name is Lila Jangluji, had obtained the
caste certificate after marrying Ashok Jadhav, a resident of Bhagwan Nagar.
The BJP
corporator had also manipulated the school leaving certificate, alleged
Narnaware. Her surname is not mentioned in the school's enrolment register.
However, her name is given as Lila Jangluji Gaikwad in the school leaving
certificate, claimed Narnaware.
Referring to
a government resolution, Narnaware said that the caste certificate should be
issued by the concerned district collectorate where the applicant was born.
Sumitra was born in Kajleshwar in Akola district and as per GR, she should have
procured a caste certificate from the Akola district collectorate. However, she
procured one from Nagpur before the 1997 civic elections.
According to
Narnaware, Jadhav's SC certificate which has been submitted in NMC is a bogus
one. In reply to Narnaware's RTI query, the district collectorate's caste
certificate department confirmed that no caste certificate bearing number
189/MRC 81/96-97 was issued from the office to Sumitra Ashok Jadhav. Even the
divisional caste validity committee had issued no caste validity certificate to
Jadhav, Narnaware claimed.
Narnaware
said that he will approach NMC and ask them to file a criminal case against the
corporator for furnishing bogus caste certificate.
Meanwhile,
NCP city wing (women) president Nutan Rewatkar has approached state civil
supplies minister Anil Deshmukh and also municipal commissioner Shyam Wardhane
seeking Jadhav's disqualification for furnishing fake caste certificate. An FIR
should also be lodged against her, Rewatkar said.
In order to
ratify her claim, the NCP leader produced a letter from the district
collectorate in which the divisional commissionerate's caste verification
committee has been asked to conduct an investigation into the incident.
Reacting to
the allegations, Jadhav claimed that she had not submitted bogus caste
certificate. However, she admitted that she had procured the certificate after
her marriage to Ashok Jadhav. NMC authorities, however, said that they will
investigate the matter.
Sources said
apart from chances of being disqualified from the civic body, Jadhav many also
face penal action under section 11 of the Caste Certification Act, 2000, and
also under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Representation of
Peoples' Act.
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