Thursday, January 17, 2019

Lecturers accused of forging Ph.D certificates

STAFF REPORTER UDHAGAMANDALAM, JANUARY 17, 
2019 00:00 IST

Two assistant professors of the Government Arts College in Udhagamandalam have been accused of forging their Ph.D certificates, with the principal of the college submitting a complaint to the police, urging them to initiate action.

Police complaint

Sources from the college said that the two lecturers, working at the Department of Botany at the college, had obtained their PhDs from a college outside Tamil Nadu. When their certificates were verified by the Directorate of Collegiate Education, they were found to have been forged, and the principal of the Government Arts College was urged to submit a police complaint against the two.

Certificates verified

An official from the college said that the certificates of the two lecturers had been checked by the Directorate of Collegiate Education, which had cross-verified their certificates with the universities from where they had alleged to have gotten their degrees from.

Report to

be submitted

“After the completion of the investigation and the registration of an FIR against the two, a report will be submitted to the Directorate of Collegiate Education, after which we will await further instructions as to what action should be taken against the two lecturers,” a source from the college said.

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