MCG Fires Two Gurugram Officials for Using AI and GPS Spoofing to Fake Work
The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has terminated the services of two Assistant Sanitary Inspectors, Waseem and Sonu, following a crackdown on technology-driven deception. Waseem was found to have used artificial intelligence (AI) tools to fabricate a photo showing a garbage clean-up on temple land in Gurugram's Kherki Daula Village, while Sonu used a GPS spoofing application to fake his attendance.
MCG Commissioner Pradeep Dahiya issued termination orders outlining "grave misconduct, fraud, dishonesty" and behaviour deemed unbecoming of a person engaged in public service. The orders were issued on Wednesday following personal hearings with the officials.
According to complaint records, Waseem was assigned to clear a mound of garbage dumped near Kherki Daula Village following complaints from local residents. Instead of executing the work, he uploaded a fabricated "after" image to the official grievance portal on April 7. The image was edited using AI-based tools to falsely show a completely clean, uniformly paved area to obtain closure of the complaint without performing the actual field work. Waseem admitted to the forgery during a personal hearing on July 1.
In the second case, officials said Assistant Sanitary Inspector Sonu manipulated the civic body’s digital attendance system. A field inspection on April 9 found Sonu absent from his duty location, despite being marked present on the MCG’s Sanitation Monitoring System Portal. When officials called his phone, he admitted he was at home.
An internal probe revealed that Sonu had been using an unauthorised third-party application called "Fly GPS" to spoof his location. This allowed him to bypass the security features of the official attendance application and fraudulently mark his attendance while remaining absent from duty. Sonu admitted to using the spoofing application during his personal hearing.
Both men were contractual employees deployed through the Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam Limited (HKRNL). Following their hearings, their written explanations were deemed "wholly unsatisfactory," and they were relieved of their duties with immediate effect on July 1. The MCG has forwarded copies of the orders to the Chief Executive Officer of HKRNL with a request to officially terminate their deployment.
