Friday, 12 July 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) in a joint operation with Haryana STF arrested an accused from Haryana on charges of felicitating cheating in the recruitment examination of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in Dehradun. The senior superintendent of police of STF Ayush Agrawal said that WII organised an examination for the post of Multi Tasking Staff (MTS) on September 17, 2023 at Rajaram Mohan Roy Public School in Patelnagar. During the second shift of the examination, the invigilators found activities of two candidates suspicious.
On checking them, they allegedly recovered a small earphone from both candidates’ ears and an electronic device with a camera from under their shirts on the chest and another electronic device with a mobile company’s SIM from under the table. Suresh Kumar from WII staff registered an FIR against them at the Patel Nagar police station. The police then arrested both candidates named Navraj and Pradeep, both residents of Jind, Haryana, and sent them to jail. The SSP said that it came to light during investigation that the accused Pradeep had appeared in the examination in the name of another candidate Mohit Maurya.
Besides this, the arrested accused also revealed about the other two accused, Sonu and Pawan, during interrogation. Agrawal said that Uttarakhand STF also raided several areas in Haryana to arrest the members of this gang but they fled. Subsequently, STF issued warrants for their arrest and Dehradun SSP also announced a bounty of Rs 15,000 on their arrest. He said that STF recently received confidential information about an accused hiding in Kaithal, Haryana. Considering this, an STF team went to Kaithal on Wednesday where they arrested the accused Sonu in a joint operation with Haryana STF late at night. He will be soon presented in a court in Dehradun, Agrawal said.
