India, Sept. 25 -- LUCKNOW After anomalies in the 2016 recruitment of X-ray technicians in UP's health department came to fore recently, a similar fraudulent appointment surfaced in Ballia, where a man was found working as a pharmacist at a government heath care facility on the basis of a fake joining letter.

"The man was working as a pharmacist since 2016. He produced the joining letter and other documents of a genuine pharmacist currently working in Varanasi. We are going to lodge an FIR in this case tomorrow, said Ballia chief medical officer Dr Sanjeev Verman on Thursday.

He said the matter was referred to the director-general (medical health), Uttar Pradesh.

It was found that the original joining letter was issued by the directora...