Police recruitment scam Another case registered
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The Bhoiwada police, investigating the scam involving dummy candidates appearing for Mumbai police recruitment drive, registered another offence on Tuesday, taking the total number of offences registered in the scam to 10. So far the po lice have arrested over 12 candidates and their dummies, including an instructor of a training Institute.
In the latest offence, the police have arrested one Sopan Shelar, 26, a resident of Aurangabad. Shelar, who cleared both the written and the ground test, was called for a medical examination on Monday. During scrutiny, the police found discrepancies in his signature as well as the photograph provided by him at various stages of the recruitment.
To avoid malpractices, videography of written test as well as ground test was conducted but the police did not find Shelar in the recorded video. During ques. tioning, he confessed that the written test was given by his friend Dyaneshwar Govalkonda, a resident of Junnar in Pune.
Shelar was later handed over to the Bhoiwada police, which arrested him on charges of impersonation, cheating and for gery, along with criminal conspiracy, and Govalkonda was also made an accused. Senior inspector Jitendra Pawar has confirmed the arrest
Earlier, the Bhoiwada police had arrested Ganesh Pawar, 25, the instructor of a training in
The recruitment drive for 1,076 posts for constables in the Mumbai police began
in November 2021, with a total of 1,09,276 candidates
taking the written test
stitute in Beed, which he used to run with one Ravi Shelke who died in December last year.
According to the police, those candidates who score 40-42 in the written test out of 50 and are unsure of scoring well in the ground test used his services, for which they were charged up to
3 lakh.
Pawar, who allegedly appeared for four candidates, scored 49 of 50, the police said.
The recruitment drive for 1,076 posts for constables in the Mumbai police began in November 2021. A total of 1,09,276 candidates appeared for the written test. Out of these, 10,760 candidates were called for a ground test.
After the final list of 1,076 candidates was declared in January, a special team was formed, which scrutinised all the selected candidates. All the accused candidates and their dummies mostly hail from Jalna, Beed, Aurangabad and Kolhapur districts, the police said.
Complainant wants name of Raj CMs son removed from cheating case
A businessman, who had com plained to the Nashik police against 14 people and accused them of cheating, now wants to drop the name of the Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav Gehlot from the case, a police official said on Wednesday
Based on the complaint of businessman Sushil Patil, 33, the Gangapur police in Nashik had last week registered an FIR against 14 people, including the CM's son.
On Monday, the Gangapur police recorded Patil's supplementary statement, wherein he claimed that he took Gehlot's name due to a misunderstanding caused by Sachin Valera -a Gujarat-based Congress worker and the prime accused in the case, the official said.
A police official said Patil told them that Valera used to take Gehlot's name due to which Patil named him in the complaint But, now he does not have any complaint against Vaibhav Gehlot, the official said.
Earlier, after a Nashik court's directions, the police had regis tered the FIR against 14 people under various Indian Penal Code sections, including 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 468 (forgery for cheating).
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