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Fake degree scam: 3,000 teachers resign fearing action by Patna HC

By M I Khan
July 29, 2015 09:10 IST
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Nearly 3,000 school teachers, who allegedly used forged certificates to procure jobs, have resigned in Bihar out of fear of legal action after the Patna high court refused to extend the deadline on voluntary resignation for teachers with fake degrees on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the state education department had informed the Patna high court that 3,000 school teachers have resigned so far.

The court has ordered the state government to act tough against any teachers with fake degrees who have failed to resign of their own accord and have refused to provide any more general amnesty to them.

According to officials of the education department, the teachers resigned following the Patna high court directive to the state government early this month to ask the any teachers who allegedly used forged degrees to get the jobs to resign or face legal action.

The court had made it clear that those schoolteachers who continued working with fake degrees even after the deadline to resign would face punishment and recovery of the salary paid to them.

Last month the Patna high court directed the director of Bihar vigilance department to probe the recruitment of nearly 40,000 government teachers who allegedly used fake degree certificates to get the jobs.

The court ordered the probe on the petition of Ranjit Pandit and asked for an investigation report within four weeks.

Pandit’s lawyer Dinu Kumar said that the court has asked the director of state vigilance to complete the verification of degrees and certificates of teachers recruited by the state government from 2006 till date.

“The court’s order was important in view of the upcoming Bihar assembly polls later this year, the state government was not taking action against the teachers,” he said.

The state government has already admitted that it recruited more than three lakh contract teachers without verifying their educational and professional degrees.

The petition was filed in the high court last year seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the recruitment of 40,000 teachers who allegedly used fake degree certificates to get jobs in government schools.

The petitioner said he has collected documents as evidence through Right to Information queries to prove that thousands of teachers used forged degrees to get jobs in government schools in Bihar.

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