more-in The Madras High Court has directed a private school in the city to initiate stringent action against its employee who had issued a fake Transfer Certificate (TC) to a Class VIII student to make it appear as if she had studied in that school though in reality the girl had pursued education all through in a school in Kerala. Justice S. Vaidyanathan said that, in his view, the entire school should be ordered to be closed down for having issued a fake TC. However, considering the future of hundreds of students studying in the institution at Gandhi Nagar in Nagalkeni near here, he refrained from passing such a drastic order. The judge directed the school management to identify the employee who had issued the TC and give him/her an opportunity of resigning the job before commencing disciplinary proceedings. If the employee does not resign, an inquiry must be conducted and he/she must be dismissed from service on being found guilty. The direction was issued on a writ petition filed and argued in person by S. Diraviam Dinesh, a medical researcher turned advocate. The petitioner had accused his estranged wife of having taken away their daughter from place to place and having finally admitted her in a school in Bangalore on the basis of the fake TC. He also alleged that his daughter, belonging to Backward Class, had been falsely shown as one belonging to the Scheduled Caste in the fake TC. The petitioner wanted the court to issue a direction to the Director of School Education to initiate appropriate action against the Nagalkeni school for having issued the fake TC. During the course of hearing, the judge found the child’s mother guilty of having obtained the fake TC. He also found that she as well as the school which had issued the TC were represented by same counsel. It warned the woman not to indulge in any such “fraudulent activities” in the future since it may affect the future of her child. Mr. Justice Vaidyanathan also came down heavily on the petitioner for attempting to ruin the future of his child by filing such a case. “It is high time the petitioner realises that it is not only the spouse who is affected in a matrimonial dispute but the children too. Family should be built up with love and affection and not with endless litigations,” he said. Making it clear that the petitioner’s daughter could continue in the school at Bangalore since she had been admitted there on the basis of her birth certificate and not the fake TC obtained from here and that she would not be entitled to SC status, the judge expected the petitioner to at least bear the expenditure towards her education.

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