MD SAHJAHAN Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE order impugned in the present writ petition has been issued by the District Inspector of Schools (SE), Malda on February 06, 2004 holding the petitioner guilty of procuring a forged marksheet and was, therefore, not competent to be empanelled for the post of the Assistant Teacher of Mathematics of Ratua High Madrasah (the Madrasah, for short) in the district of Malda.

(2.) THE petitioner joined the Madrasah on December 23, 1997. When he applied for the post, he had produced a marksheet of B.Ed degree from B.N. Mondal University in Bihar. The Madrasah authorities referred the marksheet for verification to the University. The University informed the Secretary of the Madrasah that the petitioner obtained 698 marks in B.Ed examination of 1996 although, according to the Madrasah authorities, the marksheet produced by the petitioner showed 732 as his total marks. Subsequently, the District Inspector of Schools had terminated the appointment of the petitioner on May 18, 1998 for producing a forged certificate.

(3.) AT this stage, it is not necessary to enter into the details of the step taken by the petitioner and the subsequent writ petition filed by him. Suffice it to say, the petitioner's stand had been that he never submitted any such certificate, as claimed by the Madrasah authorities. The marksheet he submitted reflected a grand total as 698 marks. It must have been in the interest of any designing person that the said certificate had somehow appeared on the record.