BENGALURU: The education department has filed a case of cheating and forgery against the National Public School (NPS) for getting exception from the Right to Education RTE ) Act 2009 by allegedly submitting fake certificates.Jeevan Bima Nagar police registered a case against the school’s chairman and administrative board on Friday based on a complaint filed by Saleem Pasha, block education officer (BEO), Bengaluru south.Pasha alleged that an administrative board member of National Education Trust, which runs NPS in HAL II Stage, Indiranagar, submitted a certificate to the education department to claim RTE exception. The member claimed NPS is a linguistic minority school declared by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI), government of India. But the NCMEI secretary told the education department that the certificates furnished by NPS are fake.“We have registered a case against NPS and the matter is under investigation. We can’t reveal more,” an officer said. An NPS official said they have no information about the complaint and will look into the matter.