Bengaluru: Criminal cases booked against 249 guest lecturers who submitted fake PhD certificates
An order issued by the Commissioner, Collegiate Education, blacklists these candidates permanently for the years to come as well. A Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) was issued for the same. Bihar govt. to dismiss over 3,000 school teachers for using fake degrees, forged documents to secure jobsCriminal cases will also be booked against them as they have committed a fraud by providing false information/documents to the government.
- ▪An order issued by the Commissioner, Collegiate Education, blacklists these candidates permanently for the years to come as well.
- ▪A Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) was issued for the same.
- ▪Bihar govt. to dismiss over 3,000 school teachers for using fake degrees, forged documents to secure jobsCriminal cases will also be booked against them as they have committed a fraud by providing false information/documents to the governme
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The Collegiate Education Department has ordered the registration of criminal cases against 249 teachers who got placed as guest faculties in government first grade colleges by submitting fake/invalid PhD certificates in the year 2025-26.Even as the recruitment process for guest lecturers in these colleges for the year 2026-27 is under way, all the tainted candidates have been blacklisted and excluded from the process. An order issued by the Commissioner, Collegiate Education, blacklists these candidates permanently for the years to come as well.
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