Overview
- The case was registered on January 6 at Azim Nagar police station under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 318(4), 336, 338 and 340 for alleged cheating and forgery.
- The Basic Education Department lodged the complaint after an internal inquiry concluded she used a fake residence certificate to obtain the post.
- Police identified the accused as Mahira Akhtar, also known as Farzana, who taught at a primary school in Kumhariya village in Rampur.
- Official records cited by police state she married a Pakistani national in 1979, acquired Pakistani citizenship, then returned to India; earlier LIU action under the Foreigners Act was recorded in the 1980s.
- Officials said she was suspended and later dismissed from service, and investigators are collecting evidence with no arrest reported so far.