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Pune City police constables Dinesh and Tarkeshwari Rathod, who had made the false claim of an Everest summit last year, have been dismissed from service. The two were served a notice in May this year, which asked them why they should not be dismissed from service. The Rathod couple, both in their early 30s, had taken leave from their work in April last year to participate in an expedition to scale the Mount Everest. In the first week of June last year, the couple held a press conference in Kathmandu and announced that they had scaled the peak on May 23. The duo had also claimed that they were the first Indian couple to do so.



Dinesh and Tarkeshwari, posted at Shivajinagar police headquarters in the city, had claimed on June 5 last year that they have become the first Indian couple to scale the Everest.

A group of local mountaineers had later claimed that couple was never at the summit and alleged that they had faked their expedition by morphing photographs, which showed them at the Everest peak.



In August (last year), the Nepal government had reportedly banned the entry of Dinesh and Tarkeshwari in Nepal for 10 years.

Following a complaint against the Rathods, an inquiry was ordered into the allegations and the city police had also written to the Nepal government to investigate the claim.

Surendra Shelke, one of the complainants and secretary of a city-based mountaineering association, had alleged that the couple had morphed the pictures and there were several discrepancies in the version given about the summit, which could prove the falseness of the claim.