Big action of CM Dhami, case filed against six people in online recruitment examination of Forest Inspector
A case has been registered in the case of copying in the online recruitment examination of Forest Inspector held last year. The DGP has handed over the investigation of this case, registered on the instructions of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, to the STF. Six people have been named in the case registered at the Cyber Crime Police Station.
This examination was conducted for 316 posts through Uttarakhand Subordinate Service Selection Commission from 16 September to 25 September in 18 shifts. The exam was conducted through the agency M/s NSEIT Limited at various exam centers.
Today another major action has been taken in the direction of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s policy of zero tolerance corruption and strict action against copying mafia. Chief Minister Pushkar Dhami had directed the Director General of Police to conduct an inquiry into the online Forest Inspector Recruitment. After the instructions of the Chief Minister, the DGP has handed over the investigation of the said case to the STF. A case has been registered in the case at Cyber Crime Police Station.
The Chief Minister has consistently talked about not compromising on the policy of zero tolerance on corruption. He said that if there is any irregularity in the recruitment process, strict action would be taken against those involved in it. No one guilty will be spared. The government will not allow injustice to happen to the honest and hardworking youth of the state.
SSP STF Ajay Singh said that the recruitment examination for 316 posts of Forest Inspector was conducted online in 18 shifts from 16 September 21 to 25 September 21. The irregularities in the examination and the use of unfair means by some students have been confirmed after investigation. After which a case has been registered in the cyber police under various sections of the Uttar Pradesh Public Examination Counterfeiting Prevention Act. Told that some students have also been identified in this. Along with this, intensive interrogation is also going on by taking some of the copying mafia involved in the custody.
The evidence of the involvement of M/s NSEIT Limited, the agency conducting this examination, has come to light from the preliminary investigation. Told that some private institutes where examinations were conducted have also been identified. Told that people from Haridwar countryside, western Uttar Pradesh and Delhi have been found involved in the online copying mafia gang. In the online copying examination gang, private institutions where there were centers of copying, some people of the agency conducting the online examination, room invigilators, and some people associated with the examination have come to suspicious light in the investigation.
Six out of eight suspected candidates had given the examination at one center
In the online recruitment examination of Forest Inspector, out of the eight candidates who were examined as suspicious, six had given the exam at the same center. Of these, four were given the same IP on different dates while two were given the same. It turned out that everyone had logged the same examination (answering the same question at a time) while clicking on the online answer. It is being told that in the examination, along with offline, copying was done online as well.
The online recruitment exam of Forest Inspector was conducted in September 2021. The number of eight candidates was very high. The commission got suspicious after the huge difference in the marks of eight examinees as compared to others. On August 4, Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission Secretary Santosh Badoni had written a letter to the STF and Cyber Crime Police expressing the possibility of rigging in the examination. The exam was conducted through NSEIT agency.
The exam was conducted from 16 to 25 September in 18 shifts. The STF found in the preliminary investigation that out of the eight candidates, six had appeared in the Swami Darshananand Institute of Management and Technology. Of these, four were given the same IP on different dates while two were given the same different IP. One candidate appeared at Nanda Devi Infotech Solution at Almora and another at Radhakrishna Assessment Center at Nainital. Investigation revealed that six out of eight candidates had the same examination center. Their examination log was found to be identical i.e. only one question was answered at a time.
