State Information Commissioner directed the district inspector of school (DIOS) of Moradabad to recover about Rs 30 lakh from nine teachers whose appointment has been found to be fake. legal proceeding has been already initiated against the guilty persons after registering a case against them. Confirming the above here on Saturday afternoon, State Information Commissioner, Hafiz Usman said that an enquiry by DIOS Moradabad, ordered from his office revealed that appointment of nine teachers through Secondary Education Services Selection Board in Moradabad was fake and large scale irregularity has been made in their selection. He said that after the enquiry, all the nine teachers, identified as Harendra Singh, Saiba Banu, Poonam Rani, Markandey Singh, Sunil Kumar Mittal, Devendra Singh, Kamlesh Pratap Singh, Jaipal Singh and Dhirendra Kumar, were removed from the job.
Usman further claimed that as no further action has been taken in the matter, so he summoned DIOS and directed that recovery of salaries as well as legal proceedings should be made by the Education Department, so that besides the teachers, the names of others who helped the above accused in getting jobs, should also come to the fore and they will be punished. SIC claimed that the Education Department first tried to hush up the matter but finally, they appraised him that a case against the above has already been registered with the Civil lines Police Station in Moradabad and that a recovery notice of over Rs 29.35 lakh has been issued by the Department. Usman said that he now directed to recover the above amount and appraised his office within a month time.