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Scores Who Landed Jobs Using Forged Papers Now Under STF Scanner
Hindustan Times Lucknow
|May 21, 2025
A complaint regarding a candidate using a fake PhD degree issued by Monad University to get a job blew the lid off this racket.
LUCKNOW: Several individuals from west UP and Haryana who may have got jobs using marksheets and degrees issued by Hapur's Monad University have come under the scanner after the STF busted a gang preparing fake documents, senior police officials said on Tuesday.
Monad University chairman Vijendra Singh Hooda and nine other officials were arrested following a late-night raid at the university on May 17.
A senior STF official said that a complaint regarding a candidate using a fake PhD degree issued by the university to get a job in another university in Haryana blew the lid off this racket operational for over a decade.
This story is from the May 21, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Lucknow.
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