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The appointments were made by forging documents that showed death of ‘fake parents’. Police have now registered a case and started an investigation.
The scam came to light during routine verification (representational image)
A massive and bizarre government job scam has been uncovered in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district where at least five persons have been held after they secured a government job through a fake compassionate appointment by fabricating the death of their parents though they were alive and have never worked in the education department.
The appointments were made by forging documents that showed death of ‘fake parents’. Police have now registered a case and started an investigation.
A man, identified as Brijesh Kol, son of Shivcharan Kol, resident of Parasia village in Tyonthar tehsil, was held after it was found that he secured the job through fake compassionate appointment by faking the death of a woman who had never worked in the education department and falsely claiming to be her son, as per the news reports.
He presented forged documents claiming that his ‘mother’, Bela Kali Kol, an assistant teacher, had died. He used fake documents to apply for and receive a peon’s job in the Government Higher Secondary School in Jaudori, Gangev block.
The scam came into light during routine verification when the school principal reported discrepancies in Kol’s documentation during salary processing. A subsequent investigation led to the cancellation of the appointment.
According to Collector Pratibha Pal, Kol’s forged documentation – death certificates, police verifications, and affidavits – appeared genuine on the surface. But on thorough inspection, the entire chain of paperwork unravelled as fake.
After the scam surfaced, the divisional commissioner of Rewa ordered a probe into all the appointments made on compassionate grounds during the last three years in all four districts of the division, Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, and Singrauli.
District Education Officer (DEO) Sudama Gupta confirmed that 36 compassionate appointments were made in last year. 10 of the appointed individuals failed to respond to official notices. Upon thorough scrutiny, five of them were found to have used forged papers.
According to FIR as accessed by Times Of India, the five accused Hiramani Rawat, Om Prakash Kol, Sushma Kol, Vinay Kumar Rawat, and Usha Devi, got jobs on compassionate grounds using forged documents in last year.
A clerk responsible for recruitments on compassionate grounds and posted at the district education officer’s office, Prasanndhar Dwivedi, was also booked for fraud.
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben…Read More
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben… Read More
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