Selection of a youth during the recent recruitment of sub-inspectors in the Police department raised serious questions on the recruitment system. The youth was recruited even when he was lodged in jail. He was accused of clearing all the exams and even the verification with the help of a 'solver’.
Interestingly, after the issue went viral on social media, the UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board ordered an inquiry and also removed his name from the selection list and cancelled his recruitment.
UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board Chairman Raj Kumar Vishwakarma said the information about the arrest of the candidate was not given to them because of which his name appeared on the selection list. “Now, his name has been dropped and further action is being taken against him,” he said.
It may be mentioned that in the year 2021, as many as 9,534 sub-inspectors were recruited. Arjun Prasad of Ballia, who belongs to a Scheduled Caste category, had also applied. He was selected even though he was lodged in jail. A probe showed that Arjun made a deal with one Rahul of Kanpur for Rs 7 lakh for selection. Rahul employed a solver named Shishupal, a resident of Nalanda district in Bihar, to take the examination in place of Arjun.
The exam was held at Cosmo Foundation Jankipuram Extension in Lucknow on November 16, 2021. Shishupal took the exam in place of Arjun and cleared it.
Arjun was called to the police lines in Prayagraj on May 5 for the verification of records. There too, Shishupal got the documents checked by posing as Arjun.
Arjun was called for the physical examination (race) at the 37th Battalion PAC, Kanpur, on May 19. Shishupal again reached there in place of Arjun and cleared the test.
The probe showed that Shishupal appeared in place of Arjun everywhere even as all the measures to check irregularities ensured by the Special Task Force and other government agencies came a cropper.
Sources said that Arjun ran out of luck when an informer disclosed the fraud on May 20. The STF laid a trap and arrested Arjun and Shishupal from Babupurwa police station area of Kanpur on the same day.
On June 12, when the recruitment board released the final selection list, Arjun’s name was also included. When Arjun was called for training, it was found that he was lodged in Kanpur jail in the recruitment fraud after which the board was alerted. His name was removed and a probe was ordered.