The Pauri police has registered a case under IPC section 420 against the principal in-charge and an assistant professor of the GB Pant Engineering College, Ghurdauri for forgery.
The forgery report was lodged with the police by the engineering college’s training and placement officer Sandeep Kumar which later led to the case being filed against principal in charge Professor Y Singh and assistant professor Rohit Negi.
According to the police, Sandeep Kumar had lodged a report of forgery against the head of the department, Electronic and Communication, Y Singh, who is currently the principal in charge and assistant professor Rohit Negi, working as a contractual guest teacher. In the report, it is alleged that Rohit Negi had drawn the salary Rs.4,55,515 from July 2010 to June 2012, during which period Negi completed his MTech course as a regular student from Singhaniya University, Rajasthan .
The HoD Y Singh verified his attendance and recommended for the withdrawal of his salary in the same duration, in which Negi was a regular student of the MTech at the university in Rajasthan.
Observers point out that recent cases of forgery being exposed in the State point at the problems affecting institutions of higher education in Uttarakhand.
Earlier, a couple of days ago, a case of forgery was lodged against unknown employees and teaching faculty members of the HNB Garhwal Central University. Both the separate forgery cases are currently being investigated by the police.