An FIR has been registered against a woman who secured a job in the Basic Education Department using forged documents. Officials on Thursday revealed that the woman secured a job by concealing her nationality.
A case was registered at the Azim Nagar police station in Rampur after an internal inquiry found that Mahira Akhtar, alias Farzana, had obtained employment using forged documents and that she currently holds a Pakistani passport.
According to the police, reported by PTI, the woman had married a Pakistani national in 1979 and subsequently acquired Pakistani citizenship.
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After her divorce, she allegedly returned to India on a Pakistani passport and got married to a local man around 1985. Around the same time, she took up employment in the Basic Education Department by projecting herself as an Indian citizen.
"An FIR has been registered under sections 318(4), 336, 338, and 340 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for cheating and forgery. It is alleged that despite being a Pakistani national, she secured a job in the education department by using a fake residence certificate," Additional Superintendent of Police Anurag Singh said, adding that the accused woman worked as govt teacher in Kumhariya village.
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The education department has suspended her from the job, and an FIR has been registered on the department’s complaint. The investigation is currently underway, but no arrest has been made so far.