The Madras High Court Bench here on Friday observed that people accused of gaining a teacher’s job through fake educational certificates should not be allowed to continue in service since it would amount to letting the students influenced by fraudsters.
Justice S. Vaidyanathan made the observation while dismissing a writ petition filed by an ousted Assistant Professor of History, at Annamalai University, who was dismissed in 2014 for having secured the job in 2008 by producing a fake Class X mark sheet of the year 1996.
The judge also imposed a cost of Rs.25,000 on the writ petitioner and directed him to pay the amount to the Government Rehabilitation Home for the Lepers at Y. Pudupatti near here besides granting liberty to the university to initiate criminal action against him, if necessary.
Agreeing with senior counsel M. Ajmal Khan, representing the university, that the petitioner does not deserve leniency, the judge said: “Teaching is a noble profession which contributes much to the development of the nation by performing the yeomen service of imparting education to the future generation.
