Two teachers have been arrested by the Industrial police of Baleswar district for allegedly producing and supplying fake educational certificates to job seekers.
The arrested are Cluster Resource Centre Coordinator Umakanta Sahu of Nilgiri block and Radhagobinda Maharnna, a teacher of Remuna block. They were forwarded to court on Monday and further remanded to judicial custody as their bail petitions were rejected by the court.
The accused duo had had been supplying fake educational certificates to aspirant seeking jobs in teaching line. last year, several teachers were terminated from service after their certificates were found to be fake.
Source said two retrenched school teachers, Karunakar Swain and Paresh Parida of UGME schools had produced BEd certificates from a university in Kolkata. They had obtained certificates after giving Rs 65, 000, each, to Sahu and Maharnna.
As the accused did not return the money to the terminated teachers, the latter filed complaint in the court, following which they were arrested, said IIC Paresh Rout.