Mumbai, June 24 -- The Centre has asked the Maharashtra government to verify the authenticity of the Other Backward Classes - Non-Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL) certificate of Solapur municipal commissioner Sachin Ombase, after social activist Vijay Kumbhar claimed that the 2015-batch IAS officer fraudulently acquired it to be eligible for more attempts to clear the civil services exam. Kumbhar on Monday posted a photo of the letter sent by the under secretary to the Indian government to Maharashtra's chief secretary Sujata Saunik regarding the activist's complaint that Ombase had used a fake OBC-NCL certificate. According to Kumbhar, Ombase had made four failed attempts to clear the civil services exam in the general category, after which he obtained a non-creamy layer category OBC certificate in order to be eligible for more attempts. He eventually cleared the exam in the fifth attempt. "His father was a professor. How could he fall in the non-creamy layer category?," said Kumbhar. When contacted, Ombase said that he will submit his explanation to the government when asked. The controversy comes a year after Puja Khedkar, a former IAS probationary officer at the Pune district collectorate, was accused of forging disability and OBC-NCL certificates to gain extra attempts in the civil services exam....