Gopal Sharma
JAMMU, Dec 29: It may sound incredible, as one must have listened always about students caught mass-copying in exam Centres. However, this time, teachers- ‘the nation builders’ and not the students, have been caught red-handed by police while mass-copying.
Interestingly, these teachers were arrested not during the day but at night from the same exam centre where they had to appear the next day for the paper of B Ed examination. Most of them are teachers and they struck a deal with the Principal and concerned examination authorities for copying just to ensure their entry into the Master Grade of School Education Department, for raising the ‘so called standard’ of Education in the Government schools.
It is happening clandestinely, under the nose of concerned Chief Education Officers and the Zonal Officers while the Administration turned Nelson’s eye towards this practice which is eating the system like termite.
Police sources told the Excelsior that SP Rajouri, Mubassr Latiffi received a specific information that B Ed exam was going on in a Private School at Gambhir Muglan in Manjakote tehsil of district Rajouri on Friday night at around 10 pm. He directed SHO Mehmood Khan to conduct raid at the Centre and arrest all the people there.
Accordingly, the police party accompanied by Ist Class Magistrate raided the exam centre at around 11 pm and managed to arrest 13 persons including Principal of the private school (Exam Centre) at Gambhir Muglan, Zaffar Iqbal, son of Tasaduq Hussain, resident of the same area.
About 30 candidates were said to be involved in this criminal activity. Thirteen of them were nabbed by police while others managed to escape taking advantage of darkness. The written material and papers were also seized. All of them were taken to Manjakote Police Station and then shifted to Rajouri for sustained interrogation under the supervision of senior police officers.
During preliminary investigation, the police established that the Centre was affiliated to Jamia Urdu Aligarh University of UP and the candidates mostly serving teachers of Poonch and Rajouri area were appearing in the Urdu paper. While the exam was to be held on December 28 at 10 am, they had managed papers in advance from the Superintendent and other examination staff and were copying during night.
They had already managed earlier papers in the same manner but on the basis of a tip off the police party unearthed this unholy nexus. It is said that these teachers had struck a deal of Rs 20,000 per candidate with the examination authorities. Some members of examination staff were evading arrest.
The police during sustained interrogation of some the candidates found that majority of them were ReT and general line teachers and wanted to manage promotion to Master grade from the School Education Department, thus playing with the career of thousands of students. The police also claimed to have identified all others who managed to flee.
The police teams were conducting raids to nab others and those who facilitated this Criminal Act. The police was also planning to send a team to Aligarh for detailed investigation into the case and find the credibility of the degree and the Institute. The police arrested all of them and registered case FIR No. 98/2013, under Sections 409/120-B/420 and 2/3 RPC against them. It is said that three-four more such centres of that Varsity of UP were affiliated to institutes in Rajouri and in Poonch district as well.
Those arrested were identified as Zaffar Iqbal- Principal, resident of Gambhir Muglan Rajouri, Mohd Riaz, son of Raj Din, resident of Ari village in Mandi tehsil of district Poonch, Shakeel Ahmed, son of Gul Mohd from Ari in Mandi, Mohd Ayaz, son of Abdul Rehman of Marhot in Surankote, Shabir Ahmed, son of Manzoor Ahmed, resident of Khori in Mandi, Bashir Ahmed, son of Ghulam Hussain, resident of Ari in Mandi, Noor Mohd, son of Mohd Shafiq, resident of Harhi Surankote, Showkat Hussain, son of Mohd Ashraf, resident of Chhajla in Mendhar, Sabir Hussain, son of Mohd Sher from Ari, Sanjeet Kumar, son of Soni Lal resident of Sukla in Mandi, Mumtaz Ahmed, son of Abdul Rashid, resident of Bela in Mandi, Bashir Hussain, son of Ghulam Mohammed, resident of Mandi and Irfan Rather, son of Ghulam Mohammed, resident of Chhajla in Mendhar.
SP said that CEO Rajouri has been asked to look into the matter and find out the exact number of such persons operating in the area. He said that police will also write to University authorizes in Aligarh and if needed send its team for further investigation. The police would tighten is noose around all such institutes promoting such type of education spoiling career of the students and cheating the School Education Department just to get promotion.
Director School Education Jammu, Tushar Kanti Sharma when contacted was surprised and maintained that he would take serious note of it. The Director said that he would direct the CEO concerned and seek detailed report in this connection. The promotion cases of all such teachers would be stopped forthwith and they will be placed under suspension. He would recommend harsh action against such teachers and would stop all such exercise of promotion untill and unless they are cleared by the concerned universities regarding recognition and credibility of the degrees. He also assured to start inquiry into the cases where teachers/ lecturers managed degrees for seeking promotions from outside the State. And if found invalid action under law would be taken against them.
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