Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 15: Senior Advocate and BJP spokesperson, Abhinav Sharma today urged the LG Manoj Sinha to initiate CBI enquiry into the allegations of illegalities in the selection process of posts of firemen and firemen drivers.
Briefing media persons, the senior BJP leader alleged that there is ample evidence to prove that the selection to the aforesaid posts is under the shadow of neck-deep corruption as already the entire process remained tainted and full of hiccups.
He said that the department concerned came to know about illegalities after the conduct of physical endurance test and written test and therefore in 2016, the then Principal Secretary ordered to annul the entire process claiming that proxy candidates took part in the aforesaid written exam and even mobile phones were used inside the exam centres.
“Upon this, people knocked the doors of court and questioned the logic behind annulling the entire process. Thereupon the court ordered that only the written test should be re-conducted,” he said.
After that, some aspirants again approached the court and alleged malpractice in the exam and after going through their plea, the court directed to hold the written test afresh but with changed staff and by some other agency by debarring the existing TCL.
It was surprising that the new firm which was given the task to re-conduct the exam in April 2018 was owned by the owner of the earlier firm TCL namely Maharaj Krishan Valli”, Abhinav said.
He said that the selection process is also questionable because four successful candidates of the same family from Budgam and 2 from a family of Pulwama have made it to the list thus raising a doubt over the genuineness of the selection process.
He further raised a point that on 3rd October 2020 (Saturday), the list of written examinations was placed on the website but the same was not published in newspapers and on the very next day.
He also mentioned there were about 20 families in which 2 aspirants from each family were selected while five aspirants from a single family of Budgam were selected.
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