TT Nagar police have booked a 24-year-old youth for appearing in place of a candidate in the post office recruitment examinations at Model Higher Secondary School centre on Sunday.
According to the police, the youth was caught appearing fraudulently for a candidate. Fraud was caught when the details of the candidate enrolled for the examination did not match with the details of the person appearing in the exam.
The Investigating Officer Umesh Pal Singh Chouhan said that the accused was nabbed when the official at the examination center Kushal Singh Tomar found that the signature done during the examination were not the same of the candidate’s and later informed the police. Based on the information the accused was nabbed who was identified as Pritam (24) of Haryana and who appeared in place of Narendra.
The nabbed accused said that the actual candidate got off from the train for buying some food and later missed the train and later the offender appeared in the exam, he added. During the investigation the nabbed accused confessed that he appeared in place of his friend who is actual candidate.
The police have registered a case under section 419, 420, 467, 468 and 120 B of the IPC and section 3 and 4 of the Madhya Pradesh Secondary Education Act.
The police have started investigation regarding the involvement of other accomplices and it would be investigated that the incident was lone or nexus is working behind the fake candidates.
In the initial investigation police have found that the accused had appeared for his friend but the motive remained unclear and would be investigated.