Overview
- Azimnagar police filed the FIR on a departmental complaint after an internal inquiry identified forged documents in the hiring of Mahira Akhtar, also known as Farzana.
- Officials said the case cites cheating and forgery provisions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, with the accused alleged to have used a fake residence certificate.
- Police identified her as a former primary school teacher in Kumhariya village in Rampur, where she had worked for decades.
- According to police accounts, she married a Pakistani national in 1979, acquired Pakistani citizenship, later returned to India on a Pakistani passport, and remarried around 1985 before securing the job.
- Investigators say evidence collection is underway and no arrest has been made, with multiple outlets carrying the police and departmental statements via PTI.