The Azad Maidan police have registered a case against a man who used photocopies of a BMC employee’s documents to secure the job of a gardener in the corporation and worked there for 28 years. The fake Class IV employee collectively earned about Rs 43 lakh until he went into hiding in 2017, when the civic body sought to check the authenticity of the caste certificates and other papers submitted by the employee.

A source said BMC officials waited for about two-and-a-half years for the gardener to return so that he could be given a chance to present his version. Since that did not happen, they decided to file a police complaint. “Then the pandemic started and this matter got delayed. The complaint was finally filed on Thursday.”