Police to re-verify recruitment scam

The recruitment board of the police department has started re-verification process of candidates after emergence of irregularities in the constables’ recruitment. More candidates would face FIRs after one candidate was booked last week. The process of re-verification involved ascertaining the hand writing of the candidates and other measures, police spokesman said on Friday adding that one FIR had already been registered and more would be booked. The recruitment board got the hint of irregularities after a candidate, Ali Hamza, who had secured highest marks in the written test, failed to answer questions during interview and subsequent questioning made him admit employing unfair means in Multan, the spokesman added.

When his solved paper was checked in front of the board, it appeared that it was a case of impersonation. The candidate admitted that his maternal uncle, a teacher, had solved the paper and it was replaced with the original one allegedly in collusion with Candidates Testing Service (CTS) staff. Handwriting on the original paper and the one attempted by the teacher were different, a fact that emerged last Thursday, and prompted police department to re-verify the candidates, spokesman said. Punjab IGP also took notice of the matter and ordered high level inquiry. Candidates and their facilitators were being arrested.

The contents of FIR registered against candidate Ali Hamza, his maternal uncle (teacher), both now in custody, showed that 100 papers of candidates were checked for the post of traffic assistant and police found mismatch in 69 cases in the paper marking and result sheet. This put the fairness of the CTS testing process in doubt and reportedly necessitated investigations.