Two police constables have landed in trouble, with Pune Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla ordering an enquiry into the allegations that the couple had morphed photographs showing them at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest mountain peak of the world.
The couple from Pune, Dinesh Rathod and his wife Tarkeshwari Rathod, had created a sensation recently by claiming that they were India's first couple to scale Mt. Everest on May 23, 2016. Their expedition was organised by Mohan lamsal of Makalu Adventure, Nepal.
Following Rathods’ claim, several mountaineers complained to the Pune Police, saying that the constable-couple was lying and had doctored the photographs showing them at the Mt Everest summit.
Much to the discomfort of Rathods, Anjali Kulkarni and other mountaineers from Maharashtra have contested the veracity of the claim made by the Pune constable-couple. Apart from Anjali, the other mountaineers who have lodged a complaint with the Pune are: Sharad Kulkarni, Surendra Shelke, Anand Bansode, Shrikant Chavan, Rupali Chavan, Manisha Waghmare and Amit Singh. Satyarup Siddhanta, a mountaineer from Bengaluru, has gone to town saying that the pictures that Rathods have shown as theirs are the photographs he had taken on May 21 at 5.45 am. He has alleged that the couple had morphed his photographs and used them as their own.
Talking to media persons at Pune on Wednesday, Pune Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla said that she had ordered an inquiry into the allegations that Rathods had faked their feat of climbing Mt Everest.