SST teachers held in fake appointment cases

ACE DG says people involved will be rooted out

FAISALABAD: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) officials arrested three Secondary School Teachers (SST) for their alleged involvement in taking bribes and making fake appointments in the Punjab Education Department.

According to sources, some influential political figures made efforts for the acquittal of the arrested school teachers but failed because ACE started looking into the issue of fake appointments.

SST teachers of Government Girls High School Jaranwala Zaheer Ahmed Babar, Muhammad Akhtar and Rasheed Ahmed during the appointment of the teachers for the year 2013-2014, received Rs300,000 bribe for each appointment. They appointed former schoolteacher Asia Ilyas's brother Bilal and some other people in Faisalabad.

District Education Officer Faisalabad Razia Tabassum wrote an application to ACE on the matter stating that fake appointments of the teachers on fake degrees have been made, including the employees of education department. Therefore, ACE officials carried out a proper investigation and booked the suspects in case 13/16 and case number 38/2019.

The investigation duty was assigned to Assistant Director Investigation Malik Muhammad Tariq, who conducted raids in Jaranwala on Tuesday and arrested the schoolteachers.

ACE DG Gauhar Nafees said that no matter how influential the schoolteachers are, law is equal for all. The director general said that the documents and degrees of all the teachers appointed in 2013 and 2014 in Faisalabad district would be scrutinised afresh.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 16^th, 2020.