Three fake police constables who cleared a recruitment examination in September, 2012 and got posted were arrested by Special Task Force (STF) on Friday.
The recruitment exam was held on September 30, 2012 and they were arrested by the sleuths of STF from Indore training school. They had been under training at the Police Training College at Indore.The three constables were identified as Kedarnath Tyagi, who was posted in Sheopur district while Devesh Tyagi and Dheeraj Dauneria were posted in Gwalior district.
All the accused are residents of Morena district and had provided ‘agent’ who facilitated the clearing of the examination in return of money in the range of Rs2 lakh-Rs4 lakh.A case of fraud against the fake candidates who took the examination in place of candidates, the ‘real’ candidates, parents and guardians and mediators who facilitated the whole examination clearing was lodged.
During investigation it was found that the three accused were facilitated to clear the examination and the STF registered case under Section 419,420,467,468,471 and 120 B of the IPC and section of 3 and 4 of MP Manyata Prapt Pariksha Adhiniyam 1937.They took the examination in place of candidates and cleared all the phases of the recruit process and were later posted in different districts.A police officer disclosed that more candidates were likely to be exposed following the investigation.