Bhubaneswar: The state government has sacked a college lecturer in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district for submitting fake certificate at the time of joining the job.

Santosh Kumar Satapathy, a Commerce lecturer at Balikuda College in Jagatsinghpur, was dismissed from service on September 6 as per an order issued by the district Sub-Collector.

As per reports, the Satapathy had joined the job in 2018. But, there were allegations that he had submitted a fake certificate to get the job.

The Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC), Central Division, had ordered for the formation of a fact-finding team after a complaint against Satapathy was lodged with the Higher Education Department.

During investigation, the fact-finding team came to know that Satapathy had submitted a certificate with regard to his MCom degree from a fake university in Sikkim.

Satapathy was dismissed from service after the fact-finding team submitted a report to the Higher Education Department. The state government has ordered for the recovery of salary from Satapathy.

“As per the report of the fact-finding team, the MCom certificate produced by Satapathy, which was issued by the EIILM University in Sikkim in the year 2014 is fake. His service is no more required in this college,” said the Jagatsinghpur Sub-Collector in a letter to the Principal of Balikuda College.

Basing on the report of the fact-finding team, Satapathy has been dismissed from the service, added the Sub-Collector while urging the college Principal to take the necessary steps for recovery of salary from the sacked lecturer.