Brother of ‘schoolteacher recruitment fraud’ arrested in Manipuri
Shahira Naim
Tribune News Service
Lucknow, June 11
The Uttar Pradesh police, on Thursday, arrested Jaswant Singh, brother of Raj, who is allegedly the masterminded behind the “Anamika Shukla fraud”, in which several women were found working as teachers in multiple schools based on the same set of forged documents.
Jaswant Singh, arrested from Mainpuri, is himself a failed undergraduate working as a teacher in Kannauj under the forged name of Vaibhav Kumar.
His brother Raj, who operates under multiple identities, including Neetu and Pushpendra, is absconding. He allegedly runs a major racket in forged degrees.
According to Kasganj Superintendent of Police Ghule Sushil Chandrabhan, the gang had earlier managed to get a job in the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) in the Purvanchal region for a young woman named Deepti Singh. Then, he got his brother a job in a similar manner.
Like Anamika Shukla, it now emerges that there are multiple teachers with the name of Deepti Singh. The Department of Basic Education is now verifying their credentials.
According to a preliminary investigation, the gang has managed jobs for around two dozen persons with forged degrees and documents.
The matter first became known when teachers with the name Anamika Shukla were found to be teaching in multiple schools. The father’s name and address of all of them were the same.
The first Anamika Shukla was arrested from Kasganj on June 6 when she had come to the Basic Shikha Adhikari’s office to submit her resignation. From Anamika, she became Priya and finally, her father said her name was Supriya.
She has been booked for cheating and forgery under IPC Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will etc) and 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating).
According to the police, the woman admitted that she had paid Rs 5 lakh to one Raj, a Mainpuri-based man to get this job.
She used Anamika Shukla’s credentials to get the job while her real name is Priya, daughter of Mahipal, a resident of Lakhanpur village of the Kaimganj police circle in Farrukhabad district.
Meanwhile, the real Anamika Shukla is an unemployed homemaker in Gonda, who lodged an FIR against unknown persons on June 9 for misusing her documents to take up jobs in KGBVs across several districts of Uttar Pradesh.
She told reporters that though she had applied for job in the KGBV, she could not go for the counselling as she had delivered a child around the same time.
