MEERUT, Jan. 8 -- Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district police registered an FIR against a woman for securing a job in the basic education department by allegedly concealing her Pakistani nationality and using forged documents, police officials said on Thursday.

Superintendent of police (SP), Rampur, Vidyasagar Mishra confirmed that the FIR was registered at Azimnagar police station on January 6 on the complaint of the basic education department after an internal inquiry found that Mahira Akhtar alias Farzana had obtained employment using forged documents.

"An FIR has been registered under sections 318(4), 336, 338 and 340 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for cheating and forgery. It is alleged that despite being a Pakistani national, she secur...