The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case in the appointment of some teachers on the basis of forged documents in a school aided by the Delhi government and run by Vedic Sanskrit Agricultural Educational Society. According to officials, the CBI has conducted searches at 13 locations in Delhi, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh recently in connection with the case. The agency registered the FIR 14 months after a preliminary enquiry showed that 16 candidates were recruited in V S Agriculture Senior Secondary School against 18 vacancies.
The inquiry found that six candidates -- Praveen Bazad, PGT (Political Science), Chitre Rekha, TGT (English), Sonia, TGT (SST), Pratibha, PGT (Economics), Pinki Arya, TGT (Sanskrit), and Manish Kumar, PGT (Commerce) -- were allegedly selected on the basis of forged documents.
It said the irregularities were committed in connivance with Krishan Rana, the then chairman of management committee of Vedic Sanskrit Agriculture Senior Secondary School, and Shashikant Singh, the then office-bearer of Jim Corbett Senior Secondary School, besides unidentified others.
The CBI has registered the FIR against Rana, Singh, the six candidates and unidentified officials of the Directorate of Education of the Delhi government under IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery.
“All the selected candidates were given the advantage in their selection. Almost all the experience certificates were issued after the last date of submission of forms, and it was managed by the chairman before the scrutiny of the applications,” the FIR alleged. The CBI has found that, apparently, the direction was issued to the known candidates to prepare experience certificates for coming within parameters of merit and were given an advantage “deliberately and dishonestly” in the interview by awarding higher marks to the selected candidates.