5 arrested for serving to candidates cheat in Punjab naib tehsildar recruitment check
Chandigarh, November 15
5 folks have been arrested for allegedly serving to some candidates cheat within the Punjab naib tehsildar recruitment check held in Could, police mentioned on Tuesday.
Addressing the media in Patiala, Inspector Common of Police M S Chhina mentioned three of them have been from Punjab’s Patiala and two from Haryana’s Kurukshetra and Jind.
He mentioned a deal was struck at Rs 22 lakh for serving to the candidates go the examination. The police mentioned not less than seven to 10 extra folks concerned in it have been but to be arrested. Candidates who took the assistance of those folks have been being recognized as effectively, they mentioned. In October, Congress chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira had alleged a rip-off within the naib tehsildar recruitment check, and claimed that some candidates who had failed in clerical and different exams topped the examination for this submit.
Shiromani Akali Dal chief Bikram Singh Majithia too had alleged a rip-off within the check and even sought a CBI probe into it.
At the moment, the Punjab Public Service Fee had denied the allegations, claiming there was no proof to counsel the recruitment was compromised in any method.
The police on Tuesday mentioned a case below related sections of the Indian Penal Code and the IT Act has been registered on the Kotwali police station in Patiala. Eleven digital units, seven mini bluetooth earbuds, 12 mobiles, a laptop computer and two pen drives have been seized from the accused, they mentioned.
Chhina mentioned the accused had some dummy candidates apply for the check and seem for it simply in order that they might click on photographs of the query paper utilizing hidden cameras and share them with topic consultants in Haryana to unravel them.
The solutions have been then conveyed to the precise candidates utilizing digital units fitted with sim playing cards and bluetooth earbuds, he added.