Three forest guards were arrested by the Madhya Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force (STF) in connection with forgery in the forest guards’ examination in Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB), official sources said.
Morena District residents Dharmendra Nigam, Kuldeep Doneriya and Bhagirath Kairmor were arrested on Saturday by the STF for obtaining jobs through brokers, who engaged others as proxy candidates for them. Dharmendra and Kuldeep were posted in Betul while Bhagirath was posted in Chhindwara. Cases were registered under various sections against the trio, the sources said.
The trio was arrested by Madhya Pradesh police's Special Task Force (STF) on Saturday from their respective places of posting. They had not appeared in person during the written test for forest guard. Some other persons were allowed to take the examination in place of the trio, who allegedly sought help from a middleman of a racket had been run in this connection, STF sources said.
Nigam and Kuldeep had paid Rs 3,00,000 each to the middle-man while Bhagirath had given Rs 50,000 to clear the test, they said. All the three had been declared successful in the test result.
later, Nigam and Kuldeep were posted in Betul while Bhagirath had been posted in Chhindwara. The accused have been booked for fraud and forgery apart from criminal conspiracy, police added. Meanwhile, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh reiterated his demand of an inquiry into the multi-crore MPPEB scam by the CBI.
“The CBI inquiry will disclose several important things in connection with the one of the major educational scams in the country. Each and every scamstars should get punished in this case,” Singh, who was here to canvass for the Congress candidate from Bhopal PC Sharma told media.
Criticising Samajwadi Party Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s controversial statement on rape, the former Chief Minister said that he should not make such comments.