Bihar vigilance files FIR against contract teacher over allegedly altered TET marksheet
Board records show 50 marks, not the 90 printed on the 2011 TET marksheet a Muzaffarpur primary school teacher allegedly used to secure her post in 2014.
Police in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, have registered an FIR against a contract (niyojit) teacher at a primary school in Minapur block after a vigilance check found that her Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) marksheet allegedly did not match official board records, Amar Ujala and First Bihar reported on 26 October.
What the records showed
According to the reports, the teacher was appointed in 2014 through a gram panchayat recruitment unit on the strength of a 2011 TET marksheet showing 90 marks. When the Vigilance Investigation Bureau (Nigrani Anveshan Bureau) checked the same roll number with the Bihar School Examination Board, the board's records showed 50 marks, which would have meant she did not qualify.
The verification was carried out as part of the checking of teachers' educational and appointment certificates ordered by the Patna High Court. The FIR was lodged at Sivaipatti police station on the complaint of a vigilance bureau inspector, under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. It names the teacher and unidentified others.
Police are trying to establish who prepared the allegedly altered marksheet and whether others were involved. The teacher has worked in the post for about 12 years. She is accused, not convicted, and the reports did not carry her response.
Part of a wider verification drive
The Patna High Court-ordered exercise compares teachers' documents with the issuing boards' own records, rather than relying on the copies submitted at the time of appointment, which is how the mismatch in this case was found.
Lessons for recruiters
Marksheets can be altered in ways that look genuine on paper, especially when only a photocopy is kept on file. The most reliable check is to confirm marks and results directly with the examining board, using the roll number, at the time of appointment rather than years later. Keeping the board's written confirmation in the service file also makes later audits much quicker.
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