Two city college principals booked for wrong info on courses on offer

FIRs registered against management of Vasantdada Patil College & Manohar Phalke Polytechnic College for cheating and forgery

A year after the employees of Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil College at Sion-Chunabhatti complained to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) regarding the misrepresentation of facts by the college to get courses sanctioned and approved, the Wadala Truck Terminal police registered an FIR on Monday evening, against the principals of two colleges.
They also registered cases against the president and general secretary of the college management for cheating, submitting false documents and forgery.

According to Mahesh singh Thakur, general secretary of Dharamrajya Kaamgar Karmchari Mahasangh (DKKM) that has been at the forefront of exposing the fraud by the management of the two colleges since past few years said that it is sad that despite the AICTE and DTE being made aware of the fraud, no action was taken against the management.

“We have been working to highlight the cheating and fraudulent means by which the college management has flouted AICTE and DTE norms since the past year. Even after a case was made out about the same on the instructions of the court that was hearing our petition, the government did nothing to register a case nor took any action against the management. Our organization had to pursue the matter and finally an FIR has been registered against the college officials and management,” said Thakur.

The FIR has been registered against Dr. KTV Reddy — principal of Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil’s College of Engineering, Ashok Chavan — principal of Manohar Phalke Polytechnic college, trustee of the college Dhanaji Jadhav and secretary of the trust Ashalata Phalke under section 420 (Cheating), 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), 464 (Making a false document) and 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating)

According to the FIR, the college management has misled the authorities into believing that they have fulfilled all criteria for continuation of their existence and affiliation but the fact is that the details of area used for various facilities like library, laboratory, recreation room, and so on is much lesser than the actual. This has been a clear case of misrepresentation of facts and fraud.

Last year, the BMC had also carried out demolition of two upper floors of the college as it was declared unauthorised.

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