3 min learnLucknowUp to date: Aug 23, 2026 05:57 AM IST
Months after Pratapgarh native Rajneesh Yadav was felicitated for topping the Class 12 Sanskrit Board examination, the Uttar Pradesh authorities on Thursday ordered the restoration of the awards after an inquiry discovered that he had modified his identify and date of delivery by manipulating his Aadhaar card.
In June, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had introduced the accused with a Rs 1 lakh money prize, pill, medal and certificates at a perform for passing the state authorities’s Uttar Madhyama examination this yr within the first division.
An inquiry reportedly discovered that Yadav is definitely Ajay Kumar, a resident of Baijalpur village, and that he had falsely proven his yr of delivery as 2010 as an alternative of his precise yr of delivery, 1998, Omkar Rana, Pratapgarh District Inspector of Faculties (DIOS), stated.
The matter got here to mild following a police grievance by the accused’s relative, Jagat Prasad.
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Following the allegations, the training division had ordered an inquiry and constituted a two-member committee to confirm the information and study the claims. “We checked the related paperwork and different particulars and located the allegations to be true. We submitted our findings to the District Inspector of Faculties (DIOS), who forwarded the report back to the division headquarters in Lucknow,” stated Ashok Kumar, principal of a authorities larger secondary faculty in Pratapgarh and a member of the inquiry panel. One other panel member was authorities faculty principal Vindhyachal Singh.
The state authorities has ordered the restoration of the Rs 1 lakh money prize awarded to ‘Rajneesh’, together with the return of the pill, medal and certificates introduced to him.
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“We visited his home to get better the objects, but it surely was locked,” Kumar stated.
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Jagat Prasad demanded a radical police investigation to ascertain how the accused ready the alleged cast paperwork. He stated it must be investigated whether or not anybody else directed or helped him within the course of.
The police have booked Ajay Kumar on costs of dishonest and forgery.
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In keeping with the police, Jagat Prasad said that Ajay Kumar handed his Excessive Faculty and Intermediate examinations performed by the Board of Excessive Faculty and Intermediate Schooling, Allahabad, and his commencement examination from Purvanchal College, and in all these information, his date of delivery is Might 13, 1998.
His identify within the ration card can be recorded as Ajay Kumar, son of Harilal, with the date of delivery as Might 13, 1998. His identify additionally seems as Ajay, son of Harilal, within the electoral roll as nicely, he stated.
