BSF CO, many cops among 24 named as accused
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 12: The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) today filed a charge sheet against 24 people, including a BSF Commandant and number of Jammu and Kashmir Police and CRPF personnel, in a case related to the police Sub Inspectors recruitment scam in the UT.
This was the first charge sheet filed in the case and, as per the sources, supplementary charge sheets will follow which could carry names of the SSB officials and others.
The case was monitored by Dr Vidhyut Vikas, SP and Head of Branch and investigated by a team headed by Parshant Sharma, DySP CBI (Anti-Corruption Bureau) Jammu.
The case will remain open for further investigations, the officials said.
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Of 24 persons named in the charge sheet, 20 had been arrested earlier while Sulinder Kumar, a conduit was taken into custody today taking number of total arrests to 21.
In its charge sheet filed before a special court in Jammu, the CBI said Yatin Yadav of Rewari, the mastermind, had accessed the question paper of the examination conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board through Pradip Kumar Katiyar, an employee of a printing press based in Delhi’s Okhla.
Yadav used a network of middlemen and officials of Jammu and Kashmir Police and central paramilitary forces to target aspirants willing to cough up Rs 20-30 lakh to get through the recruitment process, the officials said.
Through the exam, 1,200 posts in the Jammu and Kashmir Police were to be filled up.
Those charge-sheeted include Yadav, Katiyar and former Border Security Force (BSF) commandant Karnail Singh. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and BSF personnel and middlemen, most of them in judicial and police custody, are also among those charge-sheeted.
The Central Bureau of Investigation registered a case in the matter on August 3 this year on a reference from the Jammu and Kashmir administration to investigate the allegations of irregularities in the written examination conducted by the services selection board on March 27 for the recruitment of police Sub-Inspectors.
The results announced on June 4 were marred by allegations of irregularities.
After taking over the case, the CBI conducted searches at 77 locations in multiple states and union territories including Haryana, Delhi, Karnataka and Jammu and Kashmir.
The agency analysed voluminous technical data and examined a large number of witnesses.
During the probe, the CBI arrested 20 people including mastermind Yadav and former BSF commandant Singh.
The agency recovered Rs 61.79 lakh cash during multiple rounds of searches.
Yadav contacted other accused persons including BSF, CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel to arrange candidates for the sale of the question paper, the CBI said in a statement.
“In furtherance to conspiracy, candidates were taken to Karnal and provided the leaked question paper in lieu of money. A few accused from J&K made arrangements for providing the leaked question paper to the candidates at Gangyal (in Jammu).
“It was further alleged that the accused distributed the leaked question paper at the residence of a doctor (Karnail Singh). It was also alleged that some candidates actively participated in the said conspiracy,” the statement said.
Twenty four persons named in the charge sheet include Dr Karnail Singh, BSF Commandant, Ashok Kumar, ASI JKP, Ashwani Kumar, former CRPF constable, Jaisuriya Sharma, son of ASI Ashok Kumar, Kewal Krishan, Vikas Sharma and Raman Sharma, all JKP constables, Pawan Kumar, CRPF Head Constable, Amit Kumar Sharma, Sunil Sharma, Kashmir Singh, Atul Kumar and Surender Singh, all CRPF constables, Jagdish Lal, teacher, Rakesh Kumar, Suresh Kumar Sharma, Tarsem Lal Sharma, Yatin Yadav, Anil Kumar, Ashok alias Ashok Pandit, Asheesh Yadav, Bajinder Singh, Sulinder Kumar and Pradip Kumar Katiyar, all private persons.
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