Man gets 2-yr jail for submitting forged papers to get PGI job

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 15

A Kharar resident was sentenced to two years in jail for cheating and forging documents to get a job in the PGIMER in a seven-year-old case.

In 1988, the convict, Bhag Singh, had produced a fake age proof to get a job of a hospital attendant in the hospital.

As per the FIR in the case, Bhag Singh had applied for the job in 1988. For this, he had produced a school-leaving certificate, which stated that he had left the school in 1959 in Class VIII. However, a complaint filed against him in 2011 revealed that he had presented a fake document and had actually left the school in 1954.

The qualification required for the job was Class VIII. However, it was revealed that he had dropped out of the school in Class VII and was thus not even eligible for the job. He was asked to produce documents to prove that he had passed Class VIII, which he failed to do.

Bhag Singh was booked for cheating and forgery in 2011 on the complaint of the then superintendent of the Nehru Hospital, Sukhjeet Singh.