10 officials booked for hiring teacher on fake documents in Haripur

Published May 19, 2021
The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), Haripur circle, has registered cases against 10 officials of the education department for hiring a teacher allegedly having fake educational documents. — Creative commons/File
The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), Haripur circle, has registered cases against 10 officials of the education department for hiring a teacher allegedly having fake educational documents. — Creative commons/File

HARIPUR: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), Haripur circle, has registered cases against 10 officials of the education department for hiring a teacher allegedly having fake educational documents.

According to the FIR registered in the Anti-Corruption Establishment police station, Haripur, Tanvir Haider Shah was appointed during 2007 as Theology Teacher in BPS-7 and the copies of the intermediate certificate and BA degree, which he attached with his application, were allegedly fake.

The education department officials also probed the allegation and found it correct which led to termination of the teacher’s services in 2011 and the case was filed with ACE on an application dated Sept 10, 2014.

After about seven years of probe the ACE officers found the said teacher and a district officer education, assistant district officer, office superintendent, and six clerks guilty of appointing him on fake documents.

According to official sources, seven of the accused have obtained bail before arrest from the Anti-Corruption Court till May 21. Those booked in the case included Tanvir Shah, Malik Abbas, Firdaus Khan, Mohammad Bashir, Shakil Anwar, Abdul Bashir, Mohammad Salim, Mohammad Shafiq, Said Akbar and Arif Khan.

According to record, half of the officials facing criminal charges had already retired.

SENIORITY LIST: Office of the district officer education (male) has displayed the tentative seniority lists of all primary schoolteachers after a delay of four months, official sources said here on Tuesday.

They said the seniority of teachers would be determined after completion of the process of objections. They said the tentative seniority lists had been displayed in the offices of assistant sub-divisional officers’ education for information of the teachers in Haripur.

The sources said that the teachers had been asked to approach the office of district education officer within seven days in case of any objection.

Under the policy, every DEO was bound to ensure compilation of updated seniority lists of teachers and display them by first week of January every year.

Published in Dawn, May 19th, 2021

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