Two police officers who claimed they were the first Indian couple to conquer Mount Everest have been sacked after an investigation confirmed they had faked the ascent.
Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod had claimed they had successfully reached the 8,848-metre summit in May last year.
Their claim came under suspicion after fellow mountaineers pointed out inconsistencies in photos posted online.
Police in Maharashtra state’s Pune city on Tuesday said that a departmental inquiry confirmed the couple had “morphed photographs” to show they successfully summited the peak.
“Both of them were dismissed from police service because they supplied false information on reaching the top of Everest to us as well as the Nepalese government,” senior city police officer Sahebrao Patil said over phone.
“We are not pressing any charges against them since we have already given…
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