Fifteen years after a complaint was lodged, Chhattisgarh Police on Wednesday arrested the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dhamtari District on charges of giving jobs to candidates with fake degrees.
He has been sent to judicial custody by a local court.
A police statement said that a complaint was filed in 2007 against Kamala Kant Tiwari by an applicant for a Shikshakarmi post (Category 3), Krishna Kumar Sahu. Sahu is from, like Tiwari, Magarlod in Dhamtari district.
Tiwari was accused of using his authority to allott higher marks to candidates holding invalid and fake certificates paving the way for their appointment.
In the process, genuine candidates including from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories didn't get jobs.
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) investigated the complaint and it was later transferred to a Special Investigation Team (SIT).
The forgery was detected based on the seized documents. It was found that the marks table was manipulated.The police arrested Tiwari from Supela (Durg) where he was presently posted as Project Officer, District Panchayat, Durg.