Chandigarh: Police have booked a man for allegedly submitting forged certificates of Bachelor of Arts (BA) to get a job in the office of audit accountant general, Punjab. The department had sacked the accused in August 2017. No arrest has been made so far.Police said the accused has been identified as Dev Saini, a resident of Sector 28. In his complaint to Sector 17 police station, Avasthy V S, senior deputy accountant general (administration), that accused Saini was selected as auditor under the sports recruitment quota in 2015. Saini had submitted a provisional certificate of BA issued by Shridhar University, Pilani Rajasthan , at the time of joining the office.During the scrutiny of certificates, a doubt arose in the minds of officials. They checked with the university about the authenticity of the mark sheets. The university informed that Saini was not its student and it had not issued any mark sheet of BA to him. The accused had prepared a fake mark sheets with fake stamps and signature of registrar of university before submitting the certificates in the department. The audit accountant general office then filed a written complaint against him in the police.Police registered a case under Sections 420 (cheating), 465 (punishment for forgery), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged) of IPC. The accused is absconding.

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