Mar 17, 2025 06:16 PM IST
The recruits below scanner allegedly used cast paperwork displaying them as West Bengal residents as a result of cut-off marks are decrease by round 25% in West Bengal since it’s a border state
Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has traced round 140 folks from central and north India who’re suspected to have used cast paperwork displaying them as West Bengal residents to get jobs in numerous central paramilitary forces lately, officers of the federal company stated.
A CBI probe into the case was ordered by the Calcutta excessive courtroom in August 2023. (Representational picture)
The CBI probe was ordered by the Calcutta excessive courtroom in August 2023. The investigation gained tempo after January 31 this 12 months when the company arrested a key suspect who labored for the Military.
“Around 30 constables from the Border Security Force (BSF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were summoned to the CBI’s Kolkata office and questioned over the last couple of weeks. More people are being summoned,” an official stated on situation of anonymity.
“Most of these people are from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. They appeared for the recruitment tests here because cut-off marks are lower by around 25% in West Bengal since it is a border state. The cut-off marks are even lower for scheduled caste (SC) and other backward classes (OBC) candidates,” the official added.
The recruits below scanner allegedly paid something between ₹5 and 6 lakhs to a racket that supplied them with faux domicile certificates, Bengal college board examination certificates and caste certificates. They appeared for the assessments between 2021 and 2023.
Mahesh Kumar Choudhary, the suspected mastermind who labored as a sepoy on the Military engineering depot at Kankinara in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, was arrested on January 31. A chosen CBI courtroom in Kolkata launched him on bail on February 21.
The excessive courtroom ordered the CBI probe after listening to a petition that Bishnu Chowdhury, a resident of Hooghly district, filed in November 2022.
Chowdhury alleged that some folks bought jobs within the Military as nicely utilizing faux paperwork. The CBI, nevertheless, advised the courtroom that no such proof was discovered.
The CBI has carried out a number of raids at numerous elements of Bengal since February.
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