Harmanpreet Kaur loses DSP rank over fake degree certificate: Report​​​​​​​

Harmanpreet Kaur loses DSP rank over fake degree certificate: Report​​​​​​​

Harmanpreet Kaur

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Harmanpreet had joined Punjab Police as DSP from 1st March 2018.

Indian women’s T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur has been relieved of her Deputy Superintendent of Police rank in Punjab police after her degree certificate was found to be fake.

Earlier, before four months, Indian women’s T20 captain Harmanpreet has been received the DSP rank job in Punjab Police.

Later, the controversy raised because of her graduation degree which has been found as fake, say reports.

Harmanpreet had joined Punjab Police as DSP from 1st March 2018. However, Harmanpreet had submitted her 2011 graduation degree which had been issued by the Chaudhary Charan Singh University in Meerut.

As per the Punjab Police rules, Harmanpreet eligibility is not matched with the DSP rank qualification, therefore, she would be demoted from the rank of DSP, say reports.

Reacting to the report, Harmanpreet Kaur's manager said that no official communication had been received by the cricketer. He said, "We have not received any official letter from Punjab police regarding the termination of her job. This is the same degree which she submitted in the Railways. How it can be fake and forged?"

This comes days after the cricketer snubbed mediapersons when the controversy about her degree came to the fore. According to a report in news agency PTI, she had made mediapersons wait for over an hour outside her vanity van during an event in Mohali.