Military intelligence officials have questioned around 11 youths who had allegedly participated in the Army recruitment rally at Mahendra Ground in the Army Cantonment area on Wednesday with forged documents.
Sources said that candidates from the Gorkha community hailing from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand had been invited in the recruitment rally. During the recruitment drive, one youth was questioned by the recruitment officer regarding the documents he brought. The documents related to his high school degree were suspected to be forged.
later, the youth was brought before the Military intelligence and grilled. In course of interrogation, he revealed that he had purchased class X degree for Rs 50, 000 from lucknow. Sources said some other youths who had taken part in the rally had also procured such apparently forged certificates from the same person based in lucknow. They all were suspected to be Nepali nationals, sources said.
The military intelligence officials, lIU and special branch officials have interrogated 11 suspects so far.
A Cantt police officer said 11 youths who had supposedly participated in the drive with forged documents are being questioned. These youths have not been handed over to the police station, Cantt as yet, he added.
The army recruitment rally began on October 8. Thousands of aspiring youths have been participating in the rally to get jobs in the defence forces.
Meanwhile, the head of Recruitment board GR lansdowne, Colonel BMS Talwar said 1507 youths from the Gorkha community had appeared on Wednesday out of which 20 were rejected at the pre-height check. He informed that 1487 candidates had run the 1.6 km qualifying run in which 538 had completed the race within the stipulated time.
He further said that in the mixed district category, 1639 had appeared out of which 161 had been rejected at the pre-height check. 159 candidates were rejected in double registration. 1319 candidates ran the 1.6 km qualifying run in which 214 completed the race within the stipulated time.