‘Irregularities’ in SI recruitment Former JKSSB officials, MO of BSF among 33 booked as CBI conduct searches at 30 locations

Jammu: Medical officer of Border Security Force and three former officials of Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) including under secretary were booked as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches at 30 locations on Friday in connection with alleged irregularities in the recruitment of police sub-inspectors.
The searches were conducted at 28 locations in Jammu and one each in Srinagar and Bengaluru after the registration of an FIR against then JKSSB member Narayan Dutt, then JKSSB Under Secretary Bishan Dass, then Section Officer, JKSSB Anju Raina and other accused, including middlemen and candidates, they said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has also named Karnail Singh, a medical officer posted in Jammu, Avinash Gupta, the owner of a coaching centre in Akhnoor, and a Bengaluru-based company in the FIR, they said.
Official sources said that sleuths of CBI conducted searches in the premises of JKSSB office at Channi Himmat and the respective residences of the accused persons and seized the documents including their bank related statements. The CBI is also said to have taken the Call Details Report, CDR, of the accused persons for scrutiny.
They identified the accused persons as Dr. Karnail Singh, Medical Officer, BSF Frontier Hqrs, Paloura, Ashok Kumar, ASI, J&K Police presently posted as Munshi in Police Station Kanachack, Ashwani Kumar, Ex CRPF official, Avinash Gupta, Owner of ‘EDUMAX Classes, Akhnoor, Akshay Kumar, Manager of ‘EDUMAX Classes, Akhnoor, Roshan Bral, RET teacher, Narayan Dutt, JKAS, then Member, JKSSB, Bishan Dass, then Under Secretary, JKSSB, Anju Raina, then Section Officer, JKSSB, M/s MeritTrac Services Private Limited, Bengaluru, Sourav Sharma, Sunil Kumar Verma, Jai Suriya Sharma, Bandhana Sharma, Sourav Bral,Rohit Choudhary, Ravi Kumar, Kapil Sharma, Paras Sharma , Sumit Sharma, Dheeraj Sharma, Shubham Patyar, Sahil Patyar, Rahul Singh, Mamta Langeh, Rohit Langeh, Rahul Sharma, Tarlok Singh, Sachdev Singh, Anshuman Sharma, Aakash Jalotra, Ankita Sharma and Shubam Kala (private persons).
The CBI registered the case on the allegations of irregularities in written examination for the posts of Sub-Inspectors in the J&K Police on March 27 this year, conducted by J&K Services Selection Board (JKSSB) the results were declared on June 04 this year following which allegations were being made regarding malpractices in the examination.
“The J&K government had constituted an Inquiry Committee to look into the same. It was alleged that the accused entered into conspiracy amongst officials of JKSSB, Bengaluru based private company, beneficiary candidates & others, and caused gross irregularities in conduct of written examination for the posts of Sub-Inspectors,” the statement issued by the CBI said .
It reads that it was further alleged that there was an abnormally high percentage of selected candidates from Jammu, Rajouri & Samba districts.
“Violation of rules by JKSSB was allegedly found in assigning the task of setting the question paper to a Bengaluru based private company,” it reads.
It further reads that searches were conducted today at 30 locations including at Jammu, Srinagar, Bengaluru etc. at the premises of the accused, while investigation is going on .

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