Bengaluru: Criminal cases booked against 249 guest lecturers who submitted fake PhD certificates
The Karnataka Collegiate Education Department has initiated criminal proceedings against 249 guest lecturers who submitted fake PhD certificates for recruitment. These individuals have been permanently blacklisted from future government teaching positions.
Why it matters
This crackdown addresses systemic integrity issues in public education recruitment and ensures that academic standards are upheld in government colleges.
The Collegiate Education Department has ordered the registration of criminal cases against 249 teachers who got placed as guest faculties in government first grade colleges by submitting fake/invalid PhD certificates in the year 2025-26.
Even as the recruitment process for guest lecturers in these colleges for the year 2026-27 is under way, all the tainted candidates have been blacklisted and excluded from the process. An order issued by the Commissioner, Collegiate Education, blacklists these candidates permanently for the years to come as well.
In 2025-26, the State government recruited about 10,000 guest faculties though an online counselling process in accordance with the workload required in the colleges, based on the information provided by the candidates.
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