Professor sacked over fake Ph.D. certificate
The Hindu
Salary paid to her will be recovered, says University Registrar
Fahmida Begum, working as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of Dr. Abdul Haq Urdu University in Kurnool, was terminated from employment for furnishing a fake Ph.D. certificate at the time of joining service.
University Registrar Bayineni Srinivasulu told The Hindu that they have initiated recovery proceedings against Ms. Begum for the salary paid to her in the last 23 months, which amounts to ₹5,33,436, after the Bareilly-based Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University confirming that the Doctorate of Philosophy Certificate of 2012 that Ms. Begum had produced while joining service was fake and that such a thesis was not presented or approved in the university.
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