Indore: A former chief superintendent of the Madhya Pradesh fire department has been sentenced to four years of rigorous imprisonment for working as a gazetted officer for nearly 30 years by submitting a fake degree.
Additional sessions judge Sanjay Gupta also imposed a fine of nearly Rs 12,000 on B S Tonger (70), who has studied up to only Class 10, said the official.
Tonger was sent to prison directly from the court after he was sentenced under the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act, he said.
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the police had registered a case against Tonger on the complaint of a fire department inspector, the official said.
Tonger, who was initially posted as a lower division clerk (LDC) in an electricity supply unit of the Delhi government, came on deputation to the MP fire department, he said.
Citing the EOW probe report, the official said Tonger wiped out his old service record of the Delhi government and presented a fake degree in fire engineering in the name of a Nagpur-based college to the Madhya Pradesh government.
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